Get Free Checker

higher-up

NOUN
  1. one of greater rank or station or quality

How To Use higher-up In A Sentence

  • But no higher-ups beyond the brigade are likely to face criminal prosecution in this case now.
  • But a manager checked with higher-ups and said that wasn't necessary.
  • Some people have raised the question of higher-ups inappropriately influencing this settlement.
  • Most work at uninspiring tasks, pore over old court decisions and statute books, and draft memos for their higher-ups.
  • Line-of-business managers may overlook risks or fail to alert higher-ups when they do see them.
  • Two-thirds also would tell a peer about an undone zipper, but only half would tell a higher-up, it said.
  • The exceptionally low major crime rate in El Paso, Juarez's "norteno" twin, suggests that American border cities are increasingly seen as safe havens for higher-ups reaping drug profits. The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
  • All this could not be possible without the illegal influence of concerned officials and without active connivance of higher-ups.
  • Unless you have a hitch as SACEUR, or SHAEF, you have your own world to keep in order, whilst the higher-ups worried about the "747 view". In response to those who complain about political bickering...
  • Now it seems clear that higher-ups at the FBI suspected or knew he was a double agent as early as 1991.
View all