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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
top-level
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Munitz needs to fill some top-level positions within the university's staff.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although it is possible to achieve some degree of change without top-level commitment, that change is likely to be ephemeral at best.
▪ And the convictions are gaining weight with more top-level bank executives going down.
▪ Clinton also alluded to the intractable ideological divide that led to the suspension of top-level budget negotiations.
▪ Contino tapped the ideas of his employees through a top-level labor committee and a series of labor-management committees.
▪ His assignment seems to have been the result of a military victory in a top-level power struggle with the civilians.
▪ I learned from that outing that there is in top-level racing, as well as intelligence, a physical dimension which is vastly important.
▪ The news came as Johnson Matthey announced a second top-level boardroom departure within 24 hours.
Wiktionary
top-level

a. 1 highest 2 best 3 (context Internet English) (non-gloss definition: Applied to domains at the highest level, such as .uk covering all sites for the United Kingdom.)

WordNet
top-level

adj. of the highest rank; used of persons; "the commanding officer" [syn: commanding, ranking, top-ranking]

Usage examples of "top-level".

Or downsizing may be undertaken as a more or less routine way of pleasing the shareholders, who, thanks to stock options, now include the top-level managers.

The Oikumens are a grassroots movement trying to achieve what all the top-level contact has failed to do.

So the Relatives okay top-level recruitment in the scientific community, under their own careful eye.

He knew, as a matter of fact, that there had been several nasty, meticulously unpublicized, near-catastrophes at the Long Island Nuclear Reaction Plant, all involving the new Doernberg-Giardano breeder-reactors, and that there had been considerable carefully-hushed top-level acrimony before the Melroy Engineering Corporation had been given the contract to install the fully cybernetic control system intended to prevent a recurrence of such incidents.

Orin was basically academically sound, especially for a somebody with a top-level competitive sport on his secondary transcript.

In the neighborhood of RV Trianguli, aboard Sem-pach, the scheduled briefing between the negotiating team and the top-level officers of the starships on site had been going on for half an hour or so.

But under Unix the highest level--the root--of the filesystem is always designated with the single character "/" and it always contains the same set of top-level directories: /usr /etc /var /bin /proc /boot /home /root /sbin /dev /lib /tmp and each of these directories typically has its own distinct structure of subdirectories.

From the number of soldiers there and the top-level brass who are coming and going we think that that's where Amadori may be.

You never hinted what it would mean to you, tossing out this top-level scientific career of yours and returning to where everything's cut and dried, where you could hope for no more than to drone through a professorship in a mediocre academic department.

Stack sat in the pneumatic chair that dominated the conversation pit where top-level decisions were made.

Unlike most other top-level officers, Grex had come to his position out of an unusual combination of circumstances and experience: academics—he had been chancellor of a great university— and the military, in which he had begun his career, rising to be one of the youngest ressaldar-generais in history.

Meanwhile, I’ll go Downside myself later on and check the top-level spell emplacement, just to make sure one of the other gate structures isn’t interfering with the malfunctioning one.

First of all, the root name servers also happen to be the name servers for the top-level domains such as EDU.

For that reason the suite is used for top-level meetings both commercial and political and by publicity-shunning tycoons, politicians, and film stars.