top-level
adjective
1
: highest in level, position, or rank
top-level executives
2
: involving people of the highest level, position, or rank
a top-level competition/meeting
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This summer, City are looking for far more top-level experience from their signings.
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Sam Lee, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Do your top-level goals trickle down through the organization to individual contributors?
—Bruce Werner, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
After a brutal start to the season on the long February and March road trips against top-level competition, and despite a slew of injuries, the Huskies have put their season back together up north and played their way back into Big East and NCAA Tournament contention.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2025
The second chat group, reported Sunday by The New York Times, comes close on the heels of the Signal controversy in which the Pentagon chief was one of several top-level Trump officials communicating in full view of the editor in chief of The Atlantic.
—Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 21 Apr. 2025
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Sam Lee, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Do your top-level goals trickle down through the organization to individual contributors?
—Bruce Werner, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
After a brutal start to the season on the long February and March road trips against top-level competition, and despite a slew of injuries, the Huskies have put their season back together up north and played their way back into Big East and NCAA Tournament contention.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2025
The second chat group, reported Sunday by The New York Times, comes close on the heels of the Signal controversy in which the Pentagon chief was one of several top-level Trump officials communicating in full view of the editor in chief of The Atlantic.
—Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Top-level.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/top-level. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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