Thesaurus results for HIGHER-UPS

higher-ups

noun

plural of higher-up

as in executives

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Noun

No two competing baseball executives live so close to each other, or are able to meet up and share war stories about their owners, players or the local media.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026
Over the past decade, network executives have overhauled the program time and again, asking viewers to make connections with anchors including Scott Pelley, Norah O’Donnell and Jeff Glor, only to revise plans every few years.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of executives

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Clinicians and administrators remain in control, but decision making becomes faster, more proactive and focused on delivering better patient care.

— Prathap Rao, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
That ruling put the thumb on the scale in favor of school administrators’ judgment calls, according to the appeals court judges who backed Tri County Area Schools in the dispute over the sweatshirt.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of administrators

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High achievers seek out new opportunities, consistently deliver strong results and earn the trust of their superiors.

— Kim Meninger, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
So Parker telephoned the base posing as the doctor of Adams’ supposedly ailing mother and talked the young soldier’s superiors into issuing an emergency furlough.

— Dan Kelly July 28, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026

Definition of superiors

Noun

Seeing no evil are legions of crooked operators — customs inspectors, tax agents, military commanders, among other enablers.

— Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
Whenever negotiations resume, Iran's opaque power structure — spanning the Supreme Leader, the Revolutionary Guards, civilian government, commanders and other groups — will shape not only what is agreed, but whether any deal can be enforced.

— Emma Graham, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of commanders

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Amazon and Microsoft, two of the largest employers in Washington, have both announced several rounds of mass layoffs in recent years.

— Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
As more employers publish pay ranges and more states require salary disclosures in job postings, employees have access to information that was once difficult to find.

— Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of employers

Noun

The ongoing sagas of Getz and Hoyer, two executives who got their jobs the old-school Chicago way — with no bothersome hiring searches conducted by their bosses — are ones that continue to fascinate me.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026
California’s bosses were adding jobs slowly but at a far faster pace than the rest of the nation in early 2026.

— Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 3 Aug. 2026

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