High-up (Noun)
Meaning
An important or influential (and often overbearing) person.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The company's high-up decided to cut the research and development department's funding in order to boost quarterly profits.
- At the high-end restaurant, a certain high-up would always reserve the best table without a reservation, expecting everyone else to make way.
- A group of lower-level employees quietly joked about how they hated being micromanaged by their self-absorbed high-up who wouldn't let anyone else have any authority.
- Unfortunately for us, a big high-up has expressed concerns that this ad might "not sit well" with investors and as a result it was being totally overhauled.
- By mid-week it had reached all the way to a very senior high-up at our national office and even all the way up to regional government before that Tuesday night, apparently, there had been just "official panic" there over potential corporate reputation and crisis damageisContained.