Thesaurus results for HIGHER-UP

higher-up

noun

Definition of higher-up

as in executive

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Recent Examples of higher-up For fans who want a higher-up experience, the Rooftop Cinema Club is holding screenings for Team USA’s first two group matches. — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2026 Or could a relationship with a higher-up lead to mentorship and professional growth? — Emily Nix, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025 The tray also has a second, higher-up row of cutouts to match the bottom edge of MicroATX reverse-connector boards. — PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025 Louie is summoned to the apartment of Joe Black, a higher-up gangster played by John Malkovich with a manner so quizzical yet threatening that his voice just about quivers with unexpressed rage. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for higher-up

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Noun

The young Microsoft executive had just dropped off his twins at his ex-wife’s home in Jacksonville Beach on a warm, late-winter Florida evening.

— Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Two other former Drive Planning executives were also sentenced this week.

— Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of executive

Noun

Under Ellison and new big screen bosses in the form of Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, everyone expected changes to be made at the studios of the new Paramount Skydance.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2026
His confidence was bust last season Hi James, from what the boss said in the press conference, Jones wanted out.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of boss

Noun

Fedorov, a popular minister credited with modernizing Ukraine’s armed forces and accelerating the military’s embrace of technology and drone warfare, was dismissed last month after reportedly falling out with the country’s top military commander.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Rezaei was a senior commander during the war with Iraq in the 1980s — a foundational moment in the creation of the Islamic Republic.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of commander

Noun

Rockefeller had been the bride’s employer and her husband’s friend and political ally for years, and had introduced them at Harvard, where Henry Kissinger was teaching and Maginnes became one of his students.

— Robert D. Mcfadden, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2026
Lujan now works in private law practice and occasionally goes up against his former employer in court.

— Brian Maass, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of employer

Noun

The video, released by Ukraine’s prosecutor general, clearly shows a person in a black bucket hat, a lose dark jumper and a large white tote bag, walking up the street and placing a black backpack on the doorstep of Yermolaiev’s home.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
Ecuador’s government shared that Michele Sensi-Contugi, director-general of the Ecuadorian Strategic Intelligence Center, and his wife, Stephany Hollihan, were among the dead passengers.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of general

Noun

The orchestra and management have had strained relations since BSO decided in March to force out music director Andris Nelsons next summer after 13 seasons.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2026
The story of modern Tottenham has been the story of near-constant resets, relaunches, rethinks, restructures, reboots, reviews and even returns, in the case of Fabio Paratici’s three months back as a co-sporting director last season.

— Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of director

Noun

She was succeeded by Peevy, who previously worked as an athletics administrator at Kentucky and a media relations director for the Southeastern Conference.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 17 Aug. 2026
The bets were small, committed to memory to avoid scrutiny from teachers and administrators, with pots of around $20 settled at the end of the week.

— Ben Paviour August 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026