Thesaurus results for HIGHER-UPS

higher-ups

noun

plural of higher-up

as in executives

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Noun

Despite the current challenges, executives remain bullish on the channel.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
Several Japanese nationals, including executives at top Japanese firms, were reportedly detained in August over alleged violations of dual-use goods export restrictions.

— Anniek Bao,Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of executives

Noun

Deadline understands that True Brit, which has distributed titles including Hugh Jackman’s The Death of Robin Hood, has appointed administrators at Simons Muirhead Burton to oversee the company’s affairs.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
Tests show the gaps between subjective grades and real understanding—and this, in turn, gives the public and administrators a sense of which schools are actually teaching their students.

— Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of administrators

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But after Dougan raised the concerns, the lawsuit says, his superiors took disciplinary action against him.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026
Reuveni, who had been promoted to serve as the acting deputy director for the Office of Immigration Litigation, warned his superiors that the government might be in violation of the court order.

— Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of superiors

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The move comes as British counter-terrorism police investigate suspicious activity near the Royal Air Force station and amid reports that US commanders received new information about a possible threat involving Iran.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
Last month, a court in The Hague, Netherlands, found former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three other former Kosovo Liberation Army commanders guilty of war crimes committed during the 1998-99 war for independence from Serbia.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of commanders

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At Will Does Not Answer Every Question California’s at-will rule gives employers broad room to make personnel decisions, including decisions an employee may consider abrupt or poorly reasoned.

— William Jones, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Economists expected employers to have added 84,000 jobs last month.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of employers

Noun

Office life has changed dramatically in the years since the pandemic, and many of us are still adjusting to the reality of being back in the room with our colleagues and bosses.

— Morgan Sullivan, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2026
So the Nineties theme looked like a way to remind the new corporate bosses of why MTV used to rule as the musical epicenter of pop culture.

— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026

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