blue chip
Speech parts
1. blue chip - Noun
2. blue chip - Adjective
3. blue chip - Phrase
4. blue chip - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
a blue poker chip with the highest value
a common stock of a nationally known company whose value and dividends are reliable; typically have high price and low yield
extremely valuable
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I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.
As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world.
blue chips are usually safe investments
Rembrandt is considered a blue-chip artist
As managing director of Pro Outsourcing, he has spent almost a decade working as a consultant and commercial savings expert with blue chip giants of the manufacturing, aerospace, retail, distribution, and automotive industries.