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Meanings of high-up in English
An important or influential (and often overbearing) person.
Synonyms
Examples for "dignitary"
Examples for "dignitary"
1
The dignitary retired, and the king was left alone in his apartment.
2
Presently the dignitary returned the picture and raised his head from thought.
3
Then the doctor was hastily summoned by telephone; the dignitary was collapsing.
4
If a foreign dignitary arrives, the flag of his nation is flown.
5
So they're excited at the prospect of preserving one last communist dignitary.
1
Why don't you get some of your friends to go for that wooden-faced panjandrum-eh
2
Anthony "Tones" Frobisher, the grand high panjandrum of Discount Electronix (Birch Hill Mall branch).
3
Are you responsible for this panjandrum to-night?
4
I did not care for all this panjandrum of punctiliousness, but was, I hope, civil and chatty with everybody.
5
Doreen has balanced the tea tray on the top of her walker and pushes the whole panjandrum into the living.
1
The grown-up daughter, Frances, was a very important person in our world.
2
After them rides a very important person, the city marshal, on horseback.
3
Isobel, as the central figure of this dissatisfaction, was a very important person.
4
The falconer, who took care of the hawks, was a very important person.
5
Surji Rao was first Minister to the Maharajah, and a very important person.
1
For each positive identification, VIP creates a document containing all parameters used.
2
Five days post treatment VIP was still significantly elevated compared to controls.
3
Our results showed that most VIP neurons very strongly signal heading direction.
4
Robert Scoble rocks the VIP area at the Digg party Saturday night.
5
Innervation of the early anterior chamber was also demonstrated by VIP-LIR fibers.
1
Want to make me a high muckamuck, a grand sachem surrounded by his valiant bodyguard?
2
All the high muckamucks in and roundabout Florence will be getting out their jewels and gowns.
Usage of high-up in English
1
I just loved to hear her, and she walked like high-up royalty.
2
The penthouses have good balconies, some with high-up views of the Dublin mountains.
3
The winds, the snows, and the high-up fort remained the same.
4
The Morses were well connected and had some quite high-up relatives.
5
He were dressed like a high-up officer in the army.
6
The party's high-ups, of course, are having none of that.
Translations for high-up
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