tier

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Half the tier is already covered by about a dozen of us (i.e. all the tier in the group called SL Public Land Preserve), but the point with the effort to collect tier in cash is for people to see what land costs (otherwise they tend to leave only $1) to keep open, and to keep experimenting to see if eventually, the general public wouldn't be able to sponsor more of this.

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  1. noun One of a series of rows placed one above another: a stadium with four tiers of seats.
  2. noun A rank or class.
  3. transitive and intransitive verb To arrange (something) into or rise in tiers: tier a wedding cake; balconies that tier upward.
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  • Taking up an entire section in the third tier, the organ was visible to the entire crowd. —  Right Wing Nut House
  • Linden Lab will introduce Estate Tools on mainland sims (and allow 100 avatars there too), keeping the same price for tier, and probably start auctions at a much lower price to encourage residents to move to a cheaper mainland. —  World of SL
  • As if top-tier, second-tier or ANY-tier free agents are lining up for the —  Blog updates
  • May 29: Failing to convince a top-tier (or second-tier) candidate to run for Fossella's seat, the Staten Island GOP nominates sent into a tailspin as details of GOP Gov. —  Swing State Project
  • If its a bank holding the top tier, as you might guess, they will often just liquidate. —  Dealbreaker
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tier:   tiers
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  1. Middle English tire, row, rank, from Old French, from tirer, to draw out; see tirade.

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  1. from tie + -er.
  2. Formerly also tire, tyre, also teer (orig. pron. tēr, then tīr, besides tēr retained to accord with the F., and spelled tier perhaps in simulation of the form of pier); from Old French tire, a course, continuance of a course, a draught, pull, stroke, hit (= Italian tiro, a draught, pull, stroke, hit, etc.), from tirer, draw: see tire. Perhaps confused with Old French tiere, tieiere, row, rank, order, = Provencal tiera, teira, a row (also adornment, attire: see tire). The Anglo-Saxon tiér, apparently meaning a row or series, occurs but once, and is of doubtful status. The words spelled tire and tier are much involved as to form and senses.
  3. from tier, n.
 

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