higher-up

noun

1. 上级；上司；长官
   a person who has a higher rank or who is more senior than you

1. 高层人物;要员
   A higher-up is an important person who has a lot of authority and influence.

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 high-up

1. At times, he recalls, while having to work closely with a maddening higher-up, "I felt we were the equivalent of a dysfunctional married couple."
   他回忆道，有时候，在不得不跟令人恼火的上司相处时，“我感觉我们就像是一对感情破裂的夫妻。”
2. One time-tested path to those hot jobs is finding a sponsor, an influential higher-up who paves the way.
   要想获得这些热门职位，一个经过时间验证的途径是找到一位有影响力的上层支持者，为晋升铺平道路。
3. Begin by persuading one higher-up that your idea can fly& maybe one of those senior managers you mention who talks about encouraging intrapreneurship.
   可以先从说服某位可能接受你想法的上司开始，比如你提到的鼓励内部创业精神的某位高管。
4. Hoping to inherit clients from a higher-up usually takes years of work on those accounts, with no guarantee of a payoff if the senior partner then decides to pass the baton to someone else.
   要想从一位上司手中继承客户资源，往往需要花费数年来经营这些客户，而且不一定能够获得回报，因为这位高级合伙人可能会将接力棒传递给别人。
5. Venus and Jupiter will be at perfect angles, so a confidential talk you have with a higher-up will work wonders.
   金星和木星会成一个完美的角度，所以你和某个上司的一次开诚布公的谈话会进行得非常理想。
6. He noticed that some higher-up executives sometimes asked the receptionists if they could help with travel arrangements.
   他注意到一些上司行政人员有时候要求前台帮忙安排出差方面的工作，如果他们可以。
7. The connector sent by the higher-up is already waiting for us.
   上级派来的联络员已经在等候我们了。
8. In1990 "reservations" in government jobs and university places for dalits were extended to a group of castes slightly higher-up the pecking order, the "Other Backward Classes"( OBCs).
   1990年，在政府工作与大学里给达利人预留的位子，甚至产生了一个等级，这个等级比起“其它的落后等级”要稍稍高一个社会等级。
9. Usually take not social address term but relative address term to call a higher-up's wife.
   称呼上级的妻子以亲属称呼语使用频率最高，社会称呼语次之，零称呼使用频率最低。
10. The scope of township governmental duties right is relatively large, intersecting and overlapping with the higher-up finance, but the scope of the property right is comparatively minor.
    乡镇政府的事权范围相对较大，且同上级财政交叉重叠，财权范围相对较小，参与分成的共享税税种和级次较多。

noun

1. one of greater rank or station or quality

   Synonym:    superiorsuperordinate