Also means
openly, loudly
Usage Note
Hautement intensifies adjectives and past participles in formal or emphatic registers: hautement qualifié ('highly qualified'), hautement recommandé ('highly recommended'). Its secondary sense of 'openly' or 'loudly' appears in déclarer hautement ('to proclaim openly'). It is more formal than très and tends to appear in written or official language.
Examples
"Ce poste est hautement qualifié."
Natural Translation
This position is highly skilled.

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