ECHELON


Meaning of ECHELON in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

upper echelons (= the most important members )

the upper echelons of corporate management

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

high

The higher echelon is pushing younger people in there.

However, for those in the higher echelons of government it was a period of seemingly near apocalypse.

That disaffection increasingly is extending from the frontline level into higher echelons .

You had to turn your complaints against the individuals who manned its higher echelons .

Married men are the only ones in the population who in general tend to reach the high echelons of earners.

low

The incoming immune adults then graze the lower more fibrous echelons of the herbage which contain the majority of the L3.

Women almost all somewhere in the lower echelons . what was the new army going to look like?

When you are in the lower echelons of any service, you are left guessing a lot of the time.

top

Few of them are to be found in the top echelons of racing.

The top echelons of the civil service have generally abjured responsibility for policy decisions.

The problem has been particularly acute in the top echelons where the blue and grey suits are rarely disturbed by a skirt.

After twelve months of reorganising and repositioning, Tyzack began to emerge as a contender in the top echelons of executive search.

Cannes society, or rather its top echelons , was now flocking into the ballroom, and Rose's unease grew.

The company has done away with its once-powerful executive committee: its top echelon will now report directly to Turndal.

upper

At the age of 35, he left the upper echelon of the advertising world to enter the political world.

The nobility of Savoy was also closely linked to the upper echelons of the clergy.

Not until ten o'clock for the upper echelons .

The days of the upper echelon are over.

There were also wide-ranging personnel changes in the upper echelons of the armed forces and the police.

Not the upper upper echelons , but Digby level echelons.

This insoluble predicament was the source of the decay, corruption and mounting tension evident within the upper echelons of the regime.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Even the highest echelons of management could not explain the decision.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Brilliant riddles floated up and down the echelons, to be pondered, solved, ignored.

Not the upper upper echelons, but Digby level echelons.

Police as suspects For some suspects in the second echelon , the search is over.

The incoming immune adults then graze the lower more fibrous echelons of the herbage which contain the majority of the L3.

The nobility of Savoy was also closely linked to the upper echelons of the clergy.

The top echelons of the civil service have generally abjured responsibility for policy decisions.

This length could be reduced slightly if they were stabled en echelon .

When you are in the lower echelons of any service, you are left guessing a lot of the time.

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