Synonyms
Examples of tier in a Sentence
Noun (1)
the bottom tier of entrants
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Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
The Transcend 14 is at the power tier where its graphics limitations start to inhibit you at the higher end, which can be hard to swallow given the price of a brand-new 2024 laptop.
—Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 5 May 2024
In a stunning show of power and grandeur, water flows endlessly through pools, down tiers, and over cliffs in a unique horseshoe shape.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2024
We were also turned off by the sheer volume of pop-up ads that appear over and over to prompt you to subscribe to Evernote’s $130 per year premium tier.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 3 May 2024
General admission fans can view the paddock from the top tier.
—Ian Parkes, New York Times, 2 May 2024
Designed with five tiers, the clever hangers provide plenty of storage space for folded pants, skirts, scarves, and more.
—Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 26 Apr. 2024
The year is 2019, and Art and Patrick, both in need of a boost, are preparing to face each other in a Challenger tournament, the second tier of competitive tennis, in New Rochelle.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
Apart from financial metrics like profits, a team’s tier, who plays for it, and its track record matter, too.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 20 Apr. 2024
Forbes, 1 July 2022
Storage today must instead protect our data, tier it across different media, manage it across clouds, catalog the unstructured bits, and integrate it into new cloud-native workflows.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
The state decided to tier the ongoing Phase 1B, meaning that some Phase 1B groups have become eligible before others.
—Emily Brindley, courant.com, 18 Feb. 2021
But, according to the think tank, there are a variety of options to limit the fiscal impact even in that scenario: Central banks could tier their reserves so some offer a lower interest rate, for one.
—Mike Bird, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
Noun
The company plans four tiers of service, with equal speeds for uploads and downloads: $65 a month for 500 Mbps, $75 for 1 gigabyte per second, $85 for 2 Gbps, and $99 for small-business connections.
—Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
The Transcend 14 is at the power tier where its graphics limitations start to inhibit you at the higher end, which can be hard to swallow given the price of a brand-new 2024 laptop.
—Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 5 May 2024
In a stunning show of power and grandeur, water flows endlessly through pools, down tiers, and over cliffs in a unique horseshoe shape.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2024
We were also turned off by the sheer volume of pop-up ads that appear over and over to prompt you to subscribe to Evernote’s $130 per year premium tier.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 3 May 2024
General admission fans can view the paddock from the top tier.
—Ian Parkes, New York Times, 2 May 2024
Designed with five tiers, the clever hangers provide plenty of storage space for folded pants, skirts, scarves, and more.
—Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 26 Apr. 2024
The year is 2019, and Art and Patrick, both in need of a boost, are preparing to face each other in a Challenger tournament, the second tier of competitive tennis, in New Rochelle.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
Apart from financial metrics like profits, a team’s tier, who plays for it, and its track record matter, too.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 20 Apr. 2024
Verb
Everyone from senior security leadership to tier one security analysts needs to understand their hybrid, multicloud environment.
—Forbes, 1 July 2022
Storage today must instead protect our data, tier it across different media, manage it across clouds, catalog the unstructured bits, and integrate it into new cloud-native workflows.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
The state decided to tier the ongoing Phase 1B, meaning that some Phase 1B groups have become eligible before others.
—Emily Brindley, courant.com, 18 Feb. 2021
But, according to the think tank, there are a variety of options to limit the fiscal impact even in that scenario: Central banks could tier their reserves so some offer a lower interest rate, for one.
—Mike Bird, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
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“Tier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tier. Accessed 13 May. 2024.
Copy CitationKids Definition
tier
1 of 3 noun
: a row, rank, or layer usually arranged in a series one above the other
tiered
adjective
ˈti(ə)rd
tier
2 of 3 verb1
: to place or arrange in tiers
2
: to rise in tiers
tier
3 of 3 noun
ti·er
variants
or tyer
ˈtī(-ə)r
: a person or thing that ties
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