Running a program with administrator or root rights, giving it permission to change system files, change settings, and read or modify other users' data.

Used in installation notes and security questionnaires as a softened phrase, so that "this runs as administrator on every machine you own" reads like a minor configuration detail.

• Euphemism Cover: "Elevated" sounds like a small step up, when the level being described is total control of the machine.
• Consent By Footnote: Burying the broadest permission the software will ever hold in a requirements list nobody reads.
• House-Cleaning Reality Check: Like handing someone a key to every room, the safe, and the car, then writing "elevated household access" on the form.

The Shining (1980s) scene where the new caretaker is handed the keys to every room in the empty hotel and told the whole place is his for the winter.

“The agent requires elevated privileges to deliver full-fidelity endpoint telemetry.”

“The software has to run as administrator, which means it can read or change any file on the computer.”