high-powered meetings

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I am reading someone's impressions from "high-powered government meetings" he attended. What does "high-powered meeting" mean?
 

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It's a meeting attended by people of influence. 'High-powered' can also refer to intellectual abilities, so I suppose the meeting might have been attended by great intellects - it all depends on context.

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Thanks! that makes sense.
 
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