Usually means: Peak level reached by water.
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  1. high-water mark: Merriam-Webster
  2. high-water mark: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. high-water mark: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. high-water mark, high-water mark: Collins English Dictionary
  5. high-water mark: Vocabulary.com
  6. high-water mark: Wordnik
  7. high-water mark: Wiktionary
  8. high-water mark: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. high-water mark: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. High-water mark, high-water mark: Dictionary.com
  11. high-water mark: Rhymezone
  12. high-water mark: FreeDictionary.org
  13. high-water mark: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. high-water mark: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. High-Water Mark: Investopedia
  2. high-water mark: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. high-water mark: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. High-Water Mark: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (high-water mark)

noun:  (literal) A mark, such as a line of seaweed, showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
noun:  (by extension, figurative) The peak, apex or acme of something; the maximum level; the furthest or highest point.

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