uplevels

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Verb

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uplevels

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of uplevel

Adverb

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uplevels (not comparable)

  1. From, in, or to a higher level of an organization, society, or building.
    • 1987, Michael Reaves, Steve Perry, Dome, page 144:
      They had done a spec on it uplevels and found it was a registration plate for a ship; it must have massed six, eight kilos.
    • 1990, David Wingrove, Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom, page 555:
      A message was sent uplevels.
    • 2011, Robert Buettner, Undercurrents:
      Polian's father had taken him uplevels, to Sky-ceiling, where they rented an open skimmer, filter masks, and waders.
    • 2014, Robert Buettner, Balance Point:
      A half hour after Polian had left Orion Parker in the detention block interrogation Kube, he sat shivering in the blessed coolness of the first-class car that bore him back uplevels.

Noun

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uplevels pl (plural only)

  1. The upper levels of an organization; elites.
    • 1991, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Space Cops: Mindblast, page 68:
      Evan said nothing until they were out into the public ways of the uplevels again.
    • 1998, Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Tom Clancy's net force, page 343:
      Uplevels won't go for it, Alex.
    • 2013, Steve Perry, The Vastalimi Gambit, page 14:
      And the Masbülc ops have gotten their claws hooked into that in a way that pisses off corporate uplevels.”

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