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higher-up

noun as in superior

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Eleven other higher-up employees in Autism Speaks earned well into six figures that year.

For one, wind is stronger and more consistent the higher up you go.

She replied: “If I did, it would be with someone much higher up the command chain than you.”

The city offers more subsidies, higher up the income scale, than almost any place else in America.

He explained with difficulty in bad French that he had seen a drama a bit higher up.

From higher up, at the level of the hidden bed, came the regular plaintive respiration of Sarah Gailey.

The northern lights crept higher up the sky with a stronger glow.

On the land people drew the boats higher up the banks; every living thing sought shelter, and the rain poured down in torrents.

Naturally, such proceedings would not have been reported, from fear of the necessity of sharing with those "higher up."

Fifty minutes there for photos; then hurried on in the hope of seeing more higher up and at a greater distance.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to higher-up, such as: better, boss, brass, ceo, chief, and chieftain.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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