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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tier.
  • adjective Having or made of tiers

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having or arranged in tiers

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Examples

  • Why don't we have what he calls tiered readiness so that some fighting forces would be ready to go tomorrow and others would be training at a lesser level of preparedness, which means -- which reduces your training costs, which reduces your maintenance costs, etc.

    Fortress America: The American Military & the Consequences of Peace 1998

  • I think that long term tiered pricing is the only way you're going to be able to justify the investment in capacity and technology to support the data river that's out there.

    unknown title 2011

  • One thing that may help to shift this a little bit is the idea of tiered data plans.

    Mobile Device-Use Constrained By Bandwidth 2010

  • This isn't specific enough to hook me but I like the idea of tiered poisoning a lot.

    12/24/2006 - 12/31/2006 Miss Snark 2006

  • This isn't specific enough to hook me but I like the idea of tiered poisoning a lot.

    Archive 2006-12-24 Miss Snark 2006

  • This isn't specific enough to hook me but I like the idea of tiered poisoning a lot.

    HH Com 657 Miss Snark 2006

  • Heavy users who don't want their speeds curbed can switch to a so-called tiered plan and pay more, AT&T said.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • The carrier plans to move to so-called tiered pricing later in the year, Lowell McAdam, chief operating officer of

    Verizon to Keep Unlimited Plans for IPhone, McAdam Says - Bloomberg 2011

  • Vodafone, the world's largest mobile provider by revenue, plans to shift to so-called tiered pricing based on data use, following a similar move away from unlimited plans by AT&T Inc.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010

  • Vodafone, the world's largest mobile provider by revenue, plans to shift to so-called tiered pricing based on data use, following a similar move away from unlimited plans by AT&T Inc.

    Apple, Google Asked to Pay Up as Operators Face Data Flood - Bloomberg 2010

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