Definition of "up-line" [up•-line]

• Alternative spelling of up line. (noun)
• Describing a higher level in a hierarchical management structure (adjective)

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• "When, years before the Smart bamboozle, the erstwhile archbishop of Detroit removed tens of millions of dollars from the endowment care funds of diocesan cemeteries, he retired to his emeritus status in the good graces of his church and ecclesiastical up-line."
• "The responsibility and accountability belong up-line with the Commander-in-Chief and Congress."
• "For as soon as the infected voting machine transfers the rogue program up-line to the server, the server can populate all the other voting machines with the next download."