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| 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. |

| high-lev·el (hī'lěv'əl) adj.
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