noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
upper echelons (= the most important members )
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the upper echelons of corporate management
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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The higher echelon is pushing younger people in there.
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However, for those in the higher echelons of government it was a period of seemingly near apocalypse.
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That disaffection increasingly is extending from the frontline level into higher echelons .
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You had to turn your complaints against the individuals who manned its higher echelons .
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Married men are the only ones in the population who in general tend to reach the high echelons of earners.
low
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The incoming immune adults then graze the lower more fibrous echelons of the herbage which contain the majority of the L3.
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Women almost all somewhere in the lower echelons . what was the new army going to look like?
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When you are in the lower echelons of any service, you are left guessing a lot of the time.
top
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Few of them are to be found in the top echelons of racing.
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The top echelons of the civil service have generally abjured responsibility for policy decisions.
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The problem has been particularly acute in the top echelons where the blue and grey suits are rarely disturbed by a skirt.
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After twelve months of reorganising and repositioning, Tyzack began to emerge as a contender in the top echelons of executive search.
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Cannes society, or rather its top echelons , was now flocking into the ballroom, and Rose's unease grew.
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The company has done away with its once-powerful executive committee: its top echelon will now report directly to Turndal.
upper
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At the age of 35, he left the upper echelon of the advertising world to enter the political world.
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The nobility of Savoy was also closely linked to the upper echelons of the clergy.
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Not until ten o'clock for the upper echelons .
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The days of the upper echelon are over.
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There were also wide-ranging personnel changes in the upper echelons of the armed forces and the police.
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Not the upper upper echelons , but Digby level echelons.
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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
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Even the highest echelons of management could not explain the decision.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Brilliant riddles floated up and down the echelons, to be pondered, solved, ignored.
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Not the upper upper echelons, but Digby level echelons.
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Police as suspects For some suspects in the second echelon , the search is over.
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The incoming immune adults then graze the lower more fibrous echelons of the herbage which contain the majority of the L3.
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The nobility of Savoy was also closely linked to the upper echelons of the clergy.
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The top echelons of the civil service have generally abjured responsibility for policy decisions.
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This length could be reduced slightly if they were stabled en echelon .
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When you are in the lower echelons of any service, you are left guessing a lot of the time.