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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do DCUM moms  use vocabulary like "high-powered" or High-paid"'?  Who cares?  That is not the crux of the issue.  The issue is we are busy, all very busy.  Sounds like the PP wants to promote herself to some kind of importance. [/quote]

I do wish people on this forum would use dictionaries. High-powered means very busy, actually. Not necessarily very important. [/quote]

Actually no.

Collins dictionary: “Someone who is high-powered or has a high-powered job has a very important and responsible job which requires a lot of ability.”
Macmillan dictionary: “important and powerful in a company or organization”
Cambridge dictionary: “(of people) very successful or having a very important job:
a high-powered attorney”
Merriam-Webster dictionary: 
“Definition of high-powered
1 : having great drive, energy, or capacity : DYNAMIC
a high-powered executive
2 : having or conferring great influence
a high-powered job”

Attributes mentioned are responsibility, importance, success, power, influence, drive (ambition), etc.  Nowhere does it say anything about amount of time.

Try overloaded, busy, swamped, occupied, unavailable, workhorse, eager beaver, overachiever or workaholic, depending on your opinion/attitude about what you do.  Those at least all have definitions that deal with time.[/quote]

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