| 词汇 | high-up |
| 释义 | high up adjective[ after verb ] uk /ˌhaɪ ˈʌp/ us /ˌhaɪ ˈʌp/ Someone who is high up in an organization has an important position in it.要人，身居高位者 Important people and describing important people actor August augustly baron be the cat's whiskersidiom doyen first among equalsidiom FLOTUS get over something/someone get over yourself!idiom guest of honour heartbeat mogul movers and shakers MVP nibs notable number two superiority the grand old man of somethingidiom high-up | Business Englishhigh-up noun[ C ] WORKPLACEukus → higher-up Examples of high uphigh up For 186 individuals, mainly high-up lianas mingled with the canopy foliage, sampling was not possible because no foliage was obtainable. I think that some high-up person in politics actually said that he regarded the modern age as the most civilised age we have ever had. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is, therefore, a pleasure for me to come into contact with another high-up member of a trade union. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was a very responsible and high-up man. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How wise he was to say that we, the railwaymen, and even the high-up railwaymen, are still human beings with distinctly individual preferences at times. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One conclusion that the study made was that he must have been a pretty high-up member in that society because the burial was very elaborate. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The other objections, which are all concentrated round the words "singled out ", are that some of the high-ups were not called. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been a good deal of criticism among people in my constituency about the way in which visits by high-ups to the works have been conducted in recent times. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In any country, military high-ups would resist such vast reforms, so prejudicial to their own status and to what they have always believed, preached and worked for. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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