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
Example Sentences
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They let go of a pretty high-up manager who they only hired a month ago.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
I love all the high points as in the high-up points, you get such amazing views.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
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
Their entire scheme was later revealed by Mark Tinsley, the Beach family's civil attorney, who found that the Murdaughs were close acquaintances with several high-up officials working on the investigation.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2023
The place was minuscule, it had one small, very high-up window, no electricity, and it was always cold.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
“Our agency officials, the high-ups — they had no clue.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
Later Randon would testify that she advised Salter not to cooperate with Whitlock's effort to correct the record until she had talked to high-ups.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2020
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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