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- noun Plural form of
tier . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
tier .
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Examples
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When will the wreakreators realize that tiers means *tiers* not tears?
Love is in the Air... Jen 2009
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Each of the three tiers is held in high esteem and acknowledged for the different role it plays within the system.
UK universities likely to follow US model, says leading vice-chancellor Jessica Shepherd 2010
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Having poisoned the environment and obliterated much of the land mass as we know it, towns are now enormous traction engines, organized in tiers (that also designate social hierarchy) and continually on the move, searching for other towns in the Great Hunting Ground which they can swallow up for resources.
Catastrophe and Coincidence « Tales from the Reading Room 2010
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Sadly IG, idiocy in the upper tiers is not limited to the emergency services or even the public sector.
Satisfied? Confident? You Will Be…… « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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The voyagers were literally shelved: assigned narrow wooden straw-covered pallets stacked in tiers two feet apart ... a few days out, disease swept through the ship — first dysentery, which debilitated, almost eviscerated, its victims and made them vulnerable to deadlier diseases; then smallpox.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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The national sports magazine Kicker periodically ranks German players in tiers of ability.
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The arrangement often consists of a table and several overturned wooden crates placed in tiers and covered with clean linens.
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The arrangement often consists of a table and several overturned wooden crates placed in tiers and covered with clean linens.
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The arrangement often consists of a table and several overturned wooden crates placed in tiers and covered with clean linens.
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Now we could make out the great guns in tiers protruding from the forward turrets; now we could see the crowded fighting-tops; now the decks, stripped to the steel plates for action.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word tiers
JM went to such an emotional wedding that even the cake was in tiers.
May 25, 2011