Definition of "high-placed" [high-placed]

• Elevated in situation; high in office or rank.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "While men like Gent attend to such matters, Salter and his high-placed backers including the widow of a former president, and, eventually, Gent's own estranged journalist-wife plan the bigger picture."
• "Many high-placed people have dismissed the protesters as if they could somehow disappear into the vapor."
• "This parish's Andrew Rawnsley, alongside other high-placed journalists from various papers, mimicked the editorial conference that goes on at newspapers every day."