Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. 1 Taking place or existing at a high level, altitude or elevation. 2 Of or pertaining to a person of a high social position or high rank within a hierarchy or organization. 3 Consisting of such people. 4 (context computing of a programming language English) Consisting of relatively natural language-like commands and mathematical notations which, after compilation or interpretation, become a set of machine language instructions.
WordNet
adj. at an elevated level in rank or importance; "a high-level official"; "a high-level corporate briefing"; "upper-level management" [syn: high-ranking, upper-level]
occurring at or from a relative high altitude; "high-level bombing"
Usage examples of "high-level".
Army Air Corps bombers from the atoll claimed to be pounding it and sinking battleships, cruisers, and whatnot in high-level attacks.
He was moving his forces openly, making low-level attacks and high-level threats against the kingdoms in the most brazen manner, and because they liked Klittichom and considered him a good-fellow-well-met who said all the right things, and they had a personality problem with Boolean, who always spoke his mind, it was the latter who was getting the blame and taking the heat!
She had been fascinated to learn that some bots occupied high-level positions as administrators, scientists, and even gengineers.
By the time he was handed the last of his diplomas, Terry Fossino was a high-level Camorra drug operative, making six-figure buys and moving the cash through an intricate system that went through six different banks in five countries before settling in as clean money in a Camorrista account in Rome.
Army and Navy cryptologists, who had read virtually every high-level code system of their World War II adversaries, could do this no more.
Trantor, in the quarters of a mid-level meritocrat or high-level university professor.
Meanwhile, all eyes focused on a high-level meeting set for August 1 in Jeddah, Saudi Ara-bia, between Iraq and Kuwait to try to resolve the crisis.
That maybe some high-level executive assistants at NIS and in the Pentagon are manipulating this case so as to neutralize its effective prosecution.
Rut if a working machine capable of breaking high-level Russian ciphers was indeed buried nearby, years of mind-numbing effort would be saved.
Although still unable to penetrate high-level Soviet ciphers, the agency had broken the cipher systems of more than forty nations, including Italy, France, the United Arab Republic, Indonesia, Uruguay, and even some Soviet satellite countries, such as Yugoslavia.
Then, like magic, high-level encrypted Russian communications, pulled from the ether, began spewing forth in readable plaintext.
Some are convinced that eyewitness testimony is reliable, that people do not make things up, that hallucinations or hoaxes on such a scale are impossible, and that there must be a long-standing, high-level government conspiracy to keep the truth from the rest of us.
But no Shackleton would dare fly low over the island and a high-level drop would almost certainly result in the parachutes being blown out to sea.
But my own control had been burned out by the ninth-level matrix which I had tried, insanely, to handle with a circle of half-trained telepaths, we had hoped, vainly, to restore the old, high-level Darkovan technology, handed down as legend from the Ages of Chaos.
In a matrix circle, where there is a high-level matrix, it is the Keeper who links with the matrix, and then with the individual matrix stones of the telepaths in her circle.