hard-charging

adjective

Definition

› determined and often forceful in doing a job: She is a hard-charging attorney. People who've worked with the new superintendent used words like "hard-charging" and "driven" to describe him.

(Definition of hard-charging adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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