Higher-ranking in a sentence as an adjective

That decision was made when the rules of engagement were drawn up, by higher-ranking people and long before this incident.

Since he is much more higher-ranking than she is, she is concerned about what their coworkers will think about his interaction with her.

This is usually handled in large companies by moving the lower-ranking employee out of the management chain of the higher-ranking one.

We fight for what we believe is best, but when a customer, manager, or other higher-ranking stakeholder decides otherwise, it's out of our hands.

Peer review gets you promotions, managers are a higher-ranking peer and can help you a little more, but you have enough independent credibility above the RGL that you can't be extorted.

It's not public record.> The basic idea would be to have redundancy in channel, location, mode, since we're talking about a case in which the chain of command's top has been ripped off leaving many higher-ranking officers at the top of the new chains.

Higher-ranking definitions

adjective

having a higher rank; "superior officer"

See also: superior