Definition of "high-ranking" []

• At an important, elevated, or exalted level in a hierarchy or organization; high-level. (adjective)

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• "Also, the Sooners wanted some amendments to the University of Texas-branded network, according to what the newspaper called a high-ranking Big 12 source."
• "Close friends of Rabbani said that the former president returned from a trip to Iran to meet with a man who had been described as a high-ranking Taliban contact."
• "It also referred to a high-ranking member of the Priory—clearly Plantard—meeting the Grand Master of P2, Licio Gelli dating the encounter two days after Plantard’s election as Nautonnier and setting it in the rather ordinary Parisian brasserie La Tipia near the Gare du Nord railway station, where he often held meetings."