Definition of "above-ground" []

• Alive; not buried.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""The J train is great," he said as he waited for one to pull up to a sunny above-ground platform at Marcy Avenue in Brooklyn."
• "So, when you are at the bottom of a deep deflationary hole and you cannot stay there … when you must get back to inflationary above-ground altitude … what do you do?"
• "And perhaps most importantly, the state is more densely forested and populated than most, leaving its more than 20,000 miles of mostly above-ground power lines vulnerable to falling snow-laden trees."