Definitions
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- n. Plural form of tier.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tier.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When will the wreakreators realize that tiers means *tiers* not tears?
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Sadly IG, idiocy in the upper tiers is not limited to the emergency services or even the public sector.
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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
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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.
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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
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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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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.
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The thick whitewashed walls are divided into compartments running perpendicularly from floor to ceiling, and these niches contain tiers of wooden shelves painted green, forming a succession of brackets.
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The masqueraders establish themselves in tiers, disguised as harlequins, as pulcinellos, etc., just as we see them on the boulevards in Paris, the difference being that in Rome they never stir.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word tiers
JM went to such an emotional wedding that even the cake was in tiers.
May 25, 2011