Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. At an important, elevated, or exalted level in a hierarchy or organization; high-level.
WordNet
adj. at an elevated level in rank or importance; "a high-level official"; "a high-level corporate briefing"; "upper-level management" [syn: high-level, upper-level]
Usage examples of "high-ranking".
Yet I feel that for the Keinaba family, whose wealth and acumen is known and admired throughout the Empire, to instruct one of their own to learn Anglais, one as high-ranking, as valuable, and as perceptive as yourself, Hon Echido, means that there is a more delicate matter you wish to broach.
Several high-ranking officers from the KPA then came on board to interview Bucher in his cabin.
Busy though he was at the telephone directing the coup in Vienna, he managed to slip over during the evening to the Haus der Flieger, where he was official host to a thousand high-ranking officials and diplomats, who were being entertained at a glittering soiree by the orchestra, the singers and the ballet of the State Opera.
DIA files in Washington, and they report that Hsiao is indeed a high-ranking member of the PRC Intelligence community.
If Hsiao was a high-ranking Chinese spy, what was he doing running things personally in Bangkok?
Neo-Templar Johannite Church in Paris in 1828, into which his own followers were initiated in due course, and after his death ten years later Sir William Sydney Smith, the high-ranking Freemason and hero of the Napoleonic Wars, took over from him.
Wheeled vehicles were not used and armour, made both of mail and lamellae, or small metal strips threaded by leather thongs, was worn not only by the contingents traditionally furnished by nobles and high-ranking officials at the New Year tournaments but also by cavalry and infantry when it met the Younghusband Mission in 1903-4.
Many Hightons already sat there: Corbal Xir, High Judge Muze, Azile Xir, the Highton Foreign Affairs Minister, and several high-ranking ESComm officers.
All 299 members of the unicameral body were present, as well as every cabinet and high-ranking security officer in the nation.
But nothing changed, or at most the ballet audience: Jenny danced in the Red Room of the Zoppot casino before high-ranking officers, Party leaders, artists, and scientists.
London brothel, Mary would refuse him and often in the process offend some high-ranking toff.
Edgar Hoover and Congressman Otto Passman are high-ranking Masons and both, significantly, reflect this philosophy and its Manichean attitude.
The old woman from Haginochaya who still comes to tend the two graves is Shigizawa Teru, a high-ranking member of the Ikuta school of koto players.
The high-ranking officer, recently returned from establishing a military outpost on the Unallied Planet of Caladan, made an astonishing announcement concerning what he had done with the corrupted Omnius core through the duped robot captain who had delivered his deadly updates to many Synchronized Worlds.
Norwich drill field, a wrinkled, white-haired and -bearded old man wearing the garb of a high-ranking churchman sat in converse with an olive-skinned man of middle years in a candle-lit chamber of the archepiscopal palace, Yorkminster.