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HIGHER-UP

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• HIGHER-UP (noun)
The noun HIGHER-UP has 1 sense:

1. one of greater rank or station or quality

Familiarity information: HIGHER-UP used as a noun is very rare.

• HIGHER-UP (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

One of greater rank or station or quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

higher-up; superior; superordinate

Hypernyms ("higher-up" is a kind of...):

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "higher-up"):

better (a superior person having claim to precedence)

god (a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people)

supervisor (one who supervises or has charge and direction of)

"Every disease will have its course."
(English proverb)
"Don't sell eggs in the bottom of hens"
(Breton proverb)
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
(Arabic proverb)
"Shared grief is half grief"
(Dutch proverb)

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