Meanings
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of uplevel
- not comparableFrom, in, or to a higher level of an organization, society, or building.
A message was sent uplevels.
1990, David Wingrove, Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom, page 5553 more examples
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.
1987, Michael Reaves, Steve Perry, Dome, page 144Polian's father had taken him uplevels, to Sky-ceiling, where they rented an open skimmer, filter masks, and waders.
2011, Robert Buettner, UndercurrentsA 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.
2014, Robert Buettner, Balance Point
- pluralplural onlyThe upper levels of an organization; elites.
Uplevels won't go for it, Alex.
1998, Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Tom Clancy's net force, page 3432 more examples
Evan said nothing until they were out into the public ways of the uplevels again.
1991, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Space Cops: Mindblast, page 68And the Masbülc ops have gotten their claws hooked into that in a way that pisses off corporate uplevels.”
2013, Steve Perry, The Vastalimi Gambit, page 14
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