Definition of "higher-up" [high•er-up]

• Informal One who has a rank, position, or status superior to others. (noun)

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• "Canadian Dick Pound, a longtime IOC higher-up, poses that possibility in an MSNBC video."
• "So you must attract the attention of an influential higher-up."
• "In their last of a series of meetings he said he had to have just one more conversation with a higher-up before the job would be Jane's."