One of greater rank or station or quality.
1The higher-up leaves were three-fingered and narrow, the lower ones rounder.
2He was a higher-up in the West Texas District, based in San Antonio.
3He's a higher-up in the Albanian mafia organization in the New York metropolitan area.
4He wouldn't even need clearance from a higher-up to offer a "deal."
5During the banquet, Murgatroyd had been visiting with the wives of the higher-up officials.
6But if you're a higher-up yourself, you should try.
7What could Zhou do with those higher-ups who were far more powerful?
8Again and again, Borucki has proposed his Kepler mission to NASA's higher-ups.
9Higher-ups held to their decision not to announce the coming threat.
10Afterward I asked the higher-ups, Why do you have to ask such things?
11To this day, the players don't understand what US Soccer's higher-ups were thinking.
12Or maybe that's a man-made rule to keep most Muslims dependent on higher-ups.
13Classic cover-your-ass language intended to keep any blame off the higher-ups.
14SAA pilots have issued a warning to the higher-ups of the national carrier.
15He complained to higher-ups about this un-Islamic behavior, but the general had friends.
16There were certain orders from the higher-ups which Robert Grant Burns must heed.
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