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Definition of high road noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

high road

noun

[usually singular]

1(old-fashioned) a main or important road

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2high road (to something) the most direct way This is the high road to democracy.

Idioms

take the high road (in something)

to take the most positive course of action He took the high road in his campaign.

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