TIER


Meaning of TIER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

low

As a result a third, lower tier to the court system, the police courts, was added in 1843.

The lowest tier on the tea tray holds four glass containers of jams and custard and the promise of scones to come.

The lowest tier of planks cleared his head by at least a foot.

Some were perhaps not unhappy at the abolition of the counties, for certain powers returned to the lower tiers of government.

A lower tier of 10,000 seats will be ready for the 1993 Five Nations.

Must we take a fund soas to avoid having our patients condemned to the lower tier of a two tier service?

Green Belt functions were transferred to the lower tier authorities who are now required to prepare unitary development plans for their areas.

new

Without these skills, we risk creating a new tier of unregulated and unaccountable decision-making.

The legislation transformed it into a new central bank and introduced a new tier of commercial banks and other lending institutions.

Labour offers to all those who want simpler local government a new tier of expensive regional government.

When the London Stock Exchange's new third tier market started up, most punters were interested.

It appears that even now we are witnessing the establishment of a new and uppermost tier in the hierarchy of precious metals.

top

You could add a smaller top tier of curtains which could be drawn at night should you want complete privacy.

Of those, 71% moved to a top tier auditor while only 8% moved away from the largest firms.

These could form a top tier of targets which could be developed for application to individual businesses.

What, then, about the top tier ?

The top tier of hangars was in darkness.

The most important developments, however, were to occur in the top tier of designated districts - the Partnerships.

upper

The descent to the Main Cliff and Upper tier remains serious, but no workable remedy has been found so far.

Tastes for variety are assumed to be of the S-D-S form, and the upper tier utility function is Cobb-Douglas.

Look especially for the frieze of statues on the upper tier .

Let the upper tier utility function be Cobb-Douglas.

The solution is to drape the upper tiers of stadiums with colorful banners and herd spectators close to the pitch.

What happens when upper tier preferences can not be represented by a Cobb-Douglas utility function?

In the 1983 to 1987 Parliament, we removed the metropolitan upper tier .

■ NOUN

system

There's no point in the fund holding system unless there is a two tier system.

The tier system gives both light and privacy.

The critics are making a fundamental error in labelling this the start of a two-tier system .

The two tier system mentioned some time ago was needed now and a greater standard of excellence was essential in practical embalming.

We are seeing the beginnings of a two tier system .

More importantly, a different tier system is developing in different parts of the country.

He says we're going toward a two tier system and those dependant on the state are seen as failures.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Mason occupied two spaces on a tier of seats normally reserved for the board of directors and important visitors.

The strong economy has done little for workers at the lowest tier .

We always sat in the top tier of seats.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand.

It is the second tier of visual cortex that specializes.

Statues by the hundred sat around and above him, tier upon curving tier.

The legislation transformed it into a new central bank and introduced a new tier of commercial banks and other lending institutions.

The second tier of the programme is in-house training.

The two tiers are not intended to exist in a hierarchical relationship to each other.

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