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superstar

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ˈsuː.pəˌstɑː

Definitions

  1. Someone who has accumulated a vast amount of fame; a high-level celebrity.
  2. An exceptionally productive employee.
  3. A giant star.

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Examples

“Want⟳ to hire⟳ a coding superstar? Call⟳ the agent.”
“Is your organization looking for its next new hire⟳, that superstar performer to take⟳ things to the next level? Be careful: Organizations are greater than just one individual. If you're that superstar, remember⟳ to be a good team player. You'll feel⟳ better about your job and you'll perform⟳ at an even higher level.”
“"A superstar employee that is creating that toxic work⟳ environment is probably costing that company more than he or she is bringing in," Martin says.”
“There's no sense⟳ in hiring a superstar developer who will quit⟳ after three months because she can't stand⟳ the management style or requires flexibility the hiring company doesn't offer⟳.”
“The greater an object's mass, the greater its gravitational force⟳. If a star could attain a certain mass --- say⟳ a million to 100 million times the mass of our own⟳ sun --- then its gravity would become⟳ 100 times as powerful as the forces generated by the strongest known nuclear reactions. Such a super superstar, in a normal course of its evolution, would contract.”
“Toward the centre of the cluster, where they were more strongly congested, the whole region glowed as though as it were a monstrous superstar.”
“Perhaps a supermassive cluster can coalesce to form⟳ a superstar -- a star with a mass of 1 million to 100 million solar masses.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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