uplevels

English

Verb

uplevels

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of uplevel

Adverb

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

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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