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high-lev⋅el

[hahy-lev-uhl]
–adjective
1. undertaken by or composed of participants having a high status: a high-level meeting; a high-level investigation.
2. having senior authority or high status: high-level personnel.
3. (of a programming language) based on a vocabulary of Englishlike statements for writing program code rather than the more abstract instructions typical of assembly language or machine language.
4. Military. (of aerial warfare) undertaken at or from a high altitude: high-level bombing; a high-level attack.

Origin:
1875–80
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high-lev·el   (hī'lěv'əl)
adj.  
  1. Made up of or carried out by persons having high rank or status: a high-level corporate briefing.

  2. Being at an elevated level in rank or importance: a high-level official.

  3. Computer Science Of, relating to, or being a language, such as BASIC or Pascal, in which each instruction or statement corresponds to several instructions in machine language. A high-level language is translated into machine language by a compiler.

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