Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Elevated in situation; high in office or rank.
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Examples
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While men like Gent attend to such matters, Salter and his high-placed backers including the widow of a former president, and, eventually, Gent's own estranged journalist-wife plan the bigger picture.
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But after the search giant recently rejiggered its algorithm to address high-placed rankings of low-quality content, Demand Media is thumping its chest, saying it had little effect on the company.
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This parish's Andrew Rawnsley, alongside other high-placed journalists from various papers, mimicked the editorial conference that goes on at newspapers every day.
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While men like Gent attend to such matters, Salter and his high-placed backers including the widow of a former president, and, eventually, Gent's own estranged journalist-wife plan the bigger picture.
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LEARNING FROM MICHELLE -- Writing at the Harvard Business Review blog, Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer analyzes the failings of Rhee's management style: Her situation drives home two lessons for anyone whose power comes to them through a single, high-placed champion.
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Many high-placed people have dismissed the protesters as if they could somehow disappear into the vapor.
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The Court rejected both of Rumsfeld's arguments and held that high-placed placed cabinet officials can be held personally liable if they authorize the use of torture.
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His right-wing politics and German nationalism won him some high-placed friends among the German establishment, including World War I hero Gen. Erich Ludendorff.
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Rumsfeld asked the court to dismiss the case because he is a high-placed governmental official and argued that he was immune from suit even for allegations of torture.
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Rumsfeld asked the court to dismiss the case because he is a high-placed governmental official and argued that he was immune from suit even for allegations of torture.
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