From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhigh-gradeˌhigh-ˈgrade adjective [only before noun] BESTof the best quality high-grade beef
Examples from the Corpus
high-grade• Corned beef is prepared by the curing of brisket, plate, and rump cuts from fairly high-grade beef carcasses in pickle.• Basic chemicals evolve into high-performance ceramics, to single-crystal silicon and high-grade crystal glass.• They are the men who swamped Britain with fresh supplies of high-grade ecstasy in the final months of 1999.• Circle 121 A new high-grade fluorescence spectrophotometer from Hitachi Scientific Instruments made its first appearance.• high-grade oil• These days, nobody cared what high-grade powder he put up his nose, whom he spent the night with.• Blagdon supply Bio-Filter Medium high-grade semi porous light clay granules with a large surface area.• Not high-grade stuff, Patterson had said, but bloody useful to get the figures in advance if you held shares.From Longman Business Dictionaryhigh-gradeˈhigh-grade adjective [only before a noun]1of high quality750 million barrels high-grade crude oilhigh-grade beef2FINANCE high-grade bonds etc have a low risk of DEFAULT (=not being repaid)the return on high-grade corporate bonds 