higher-up
a person in a position of higher authority in an organization; superior.
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How to use higher-up in a sentence
Eleven other higher-up employees in Autism Speaks earned well into six figures that year.
For one, wind is stronger and more consistent the higher up you go.
She replied: “If I did, it would be with someone much higher up the command chain than you.”
The city offers more subsidies, higher up the income scale, than almost any place else in America.
He explained with difficulty in bad French that he had seen a drama a bit higher up.
Hiker Recounts Grisly Murder Scene in French Alps | The Telegraph | September 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
From higher up, at the level of the hidden bed, came the regular plaintive respiration of Sarah Gailey.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold BennettThe northern lights crept higher up the sky with a stronger glow.
Menotah | Ernest G. HenhamOn the land people drew the boats higher up the banks; every living thing sought shelter, and the rain poured down in torrents.
Rudy and Babette | Hans Christian AndersenNaturally, such proceedings would not have been reported, from fear of the necessity of sharing with those "higher up."
The Letters of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose BierceFifty minutes there for photos; then hurried on in the hope of seeing more higher up and at a greater distance.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
British Dictionary definitions for higher-up
informal a person of higher rank or in a superior position
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