Having a higher rank or position in a particular hierarchy.
higher-ranking police officers
Example sentencesExamples
Despite losses against higher-ranking clubs, Silsden have not lost last season's knack of scoring goals.
The issue was bucked upstairs to a higher-ranking commander.
In China, and across much of Asia, people typically do not share challenging ideas with co-workers, certainly not with higher-ranking colleagues.
His father was the one who coerced him to discontinue, by using his power to get the higher-ranking officials to throw him out.
Another suggests that higher-ranking animals preferentially direct unprovoked aggression - a sign of dominance - toward the offspring of lower-ranking females.
Other scheduled flights around the country were unaffected because the union allowed higher-ranking senior pilots to replace their striking colleagues.
Our third place report score was enough to land us in seventh place behind the four teams completing the course and the two higher-ranking report scores.
One researcher summarizes that older workers perform as well or better than younger workers and have higher-ranking interpersonal skills.
She is currently one of the higher-ranking members of her sorority and doesn't want her geeky younger brother ruining her image.
Since elephants have a clear hierarchy, Savage wanted to see if subordinates got nervous around higher-ranking members, much like some humans do.
Definition of higher-ranking in US English:
higher-ranking
adjective
Having a higher rank or position in a particular hierarchy.
higher-ranking police officers
Example sentencesExamples
In China, and across much of Asia, people typically do not share challenging ideas with co-workers, certainly not with higher-ranking colleagues.
His father was the one who coerced him to discontinue, by using his power to get the higher-ranking officials to throw him out.
Our third place report score was enough to land us in seventh place behind the four teams completing the course and the two higher-ranking report scores.
Since elephants have a clear hierarchy, Savage wanted to see if subordinates got nervous around higher-ranking members, much like some humans do.
One researcher summarizes that older workers perform as well or better than younger workers and have higher-ranking interpersonal skills.
Another suggests that higher-ranking animals preferentially direct unprovoked aggression - a sign of dominance - toward the offspring of lower-ranking females.
She is currently one of the higher-ranking members of her sorority and doesn't want her geeky younger brother ruining her image.
The issue was bucked upstairs to a higher-ranking commander.
Despite losses against higher-ranking clubs, Silsden have not lost last season's knack of scoring goals.
Other scheduled flights around the country were unaffected because the union allowed higher-ranking senior pilots to replace their striking colleagues.