Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made up of or carried out by persons having high rank or status.
- adjective Being at an elevated level in rank or importance.
- adjective Computers Of, relating to, or being a language, such as BASIC or Pascal, in which each instruction or statement corresponds to several instructions in machine language. A high-level language is translated into machine language by a compiler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Taking place or existing at a high level,
altitude orelevation . - adjective Of or pertaining to a person of a
high social position or highrank within ahierarchy ororganization . - adjective Consisting of such people.
- adjective computing, of a programming language Consisting of relatively
natural language -likecommands andmathematical notations which, aftercompilation orinterpretation , become a set ofmachine language instructions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective at an elevated level in rank or importance
- adjective occurring at or from a relative high altitude
Etymologies
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Examples
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Ambassador to Romania Mark H. Gitenstein criticized what he called high-level corruption in Romania.
The Seattle Times 2012
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Ambassador to Romania Mark H. Gitenstein criticized what he called high-level corruption in Romania.
www.startribune.com 2012
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"Therefore, the report of the technical committee and the comments of some of the members on the report were referred to a high-level panel of experts who have since submitted their final recommendations" he said.
India Examining Report on Telecom Monitoring R. Jai Krishna 2011
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The agency also called a high-level meeting on the drought crisis for August 18.
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The agency also called a high-level meeting on the drought crisis for August 18.
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Such statistics helped provoke most of the world's leading developed nations to back the foundation of UN Women, following a so-called high-level panel in 2006.
UN Women justice report: Gender equality programmes need funding | Jane Martinson 2011
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These so-called high-level meetings usually evolved into swap fests of big fish stories.
Tough Customer Sandra Brown 2010
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It is ironic that “headhunter” now refers to high-level employment recruiters.
Thinking in the Future Tense A WORKOUT FOR THE MlND 2003
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But the idea of high-level support for such action was catapulted into the headlines after the well-connected columnist Nahum Barnea asked in an article in the Yediot Ahronot newspaper last Friday whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak had decided between them to attack Iran's nuclear installations.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Joel Greenberg 2011
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The transfer could be the first of so-called high-level detainees - the five under consideration have been on a 2009 list of 48 determined by the administration to be "too dangerous to release," administration officials testified this week.
News - latimes.com By Br 2012
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