Definition of "high technology" []

• Technology that involves highly advanced or specialized systems or devices. (noun)

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• "A second economic consequence of the rise of the multinationals has been their remarkable ability to combine high technology with cheap and untrained labor."
• "Senator Barton Hollingsworth, Democrat of South Dakota, had long been an enemy of the space program, and for that matter of every investment in high technology and almost anything else except dairy subsidies."
• "Australian and US forces train and exercise together on a regular basis, while the US is an important source of high technology equipment for Australia, contributing to Australia's self-reliant defence policy."