Definition of "hi-rise" [hi-rise]

• Alternative form of high-rise. (noun)

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• "By all accounts and about a billion reports Miss Lohan and her unnaturally turgid kisser did not return to the excessively cluttered 2-bedroom apartment in a Hollywood hi-rise that she'd been renting the last year or so but rather to a glass fronted contemporary single family house in Venice last listed with an asking price of $7,100 per month."
• "Camaron-Sabalo flaunts its gap-toothed sprawl of hi-rise sea view hotel rooms, exhaust-smoke roadside restaurants, quick-trip sidewalk booby traps, white clad hotel workers and uncertain thin-tanned tourists."
• ""I saw iconic firms collapsing and the people walking out of these hi-rise buildings with boxes and I was thinking to myself, 'This is just a moment in time and this too will pass for them' and I tried to look at what I could do to shed some light on the hardships and how great leaders have overcome similar situations in their lives.""