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 is very carefree, which is why he ignores orders from his higher-ups.
This encourages workers to use their own deductive powers to overcome obstacles and be creative in their decision-making, rather than waiting for orders from higher-ups.
If you're a junior officer, you call your higher-ups by their first names, and if you see them doing something wrong, you say so.
It doesn't matter what you say, you're not supposed to have a contact with reporters without telling the higher-ups.
If he proposes to allow soldiers to hold meetings and air their grievances, even though they are not on military matters, does that still not constitute criticism of the "higher-ups"?
Some of the reports passed on even from the higher-ups to the lower-downs were incomplete, and the full file was not transferred.
Did he mention any of the higher-ups who are drawing big pensions, bankers, or any of these people?
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.
