0 someone with a more important position than you in an organization:
1 a person in a company or organization who has a more important position than you have:
We told the higher-ups we needed more staffing.
He was making the hand signal that a "higher-up" had been spotted, and danger was on the way.
If a person wearing one of these disobeys a higher-up, he or she is immediately punished with a pulsating electric shock throughout the body.
This satisfaction can be from a sense of achievement, praise from a higher-up, or mere entertainment.
The higher-up the bucket in the income stream, the lower its risk, the higher its credit rating, and lower its interest payment.
Some participants also claimed that these acts reflected orders from higher-up officers.
Women of color are included in less than the above percentages in higher-up work forces.
Conversely, higher-ups may organise and rationalise the corrupt system to avoid wasteful competition between lower levels.
The room for negotiation was so drastically narrowed by the political directives of the higher-ups in the respective organizations that no room for compromise was left.
