high-up
Americanadjective
noun
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high-ups
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of high-up
First recorded in 1865–70; noun, adj. use of high up
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In a separate initiative, experts are getting inside those vacant high-up spaces to identify the barriers to bringing them back into use.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
They let go of a pretty high-up manager who they only hired a month ago.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
Even then, the only sound was the rustle of breathing, of bodies shifting and of the high-up buzz of surveillance helicopters.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Misguided, opinionated labor is dead weight; the high-up leaders know best, which is why they’ve earned the positions they have to begin with.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2023
Throwing back and forth, and the sound of cicadas and bees and high-up birds and the leather smell of our gloves and the ball smacking into them.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
“Our agency officials, the high-ups — they had no clue.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
However, Vance has already charged the firm with running a 15-year tax evasion scheme for certain high-ups, namely former executive Allen H. Weisselberg, who failed to report $1.7 million worth of company perks.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2021
In short, the high-ups wanted to take a look at weird shit.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2019
"We took the dead body straight to the town square where we staged a sit-in for seven hours, and left only after the district administration high-ups assured us that justice would be done."
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2017
Aprons, let me tell you, were no longer "high-ups" with a plain armhole.
From A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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