Definition of Tiered

1. Adjective. Having or arranged in tiers. "A tiered mound"

Partainyms: Tier

Definition of Tiered

1. Verb. (past of tier) ¹

2. Adjective. Having or made of tiers ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tiered

1. tier [v] - See also: tier

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tiered

tienshanite
tiepin
tiepins
tier
tier up
tierced
tiercel
tiercelet
tiercels
tierceron
tiercerons
tierces
tiercet
tiercets
tiered (current term)
tiered seats
tiering
tierod
tierods
tiers
ties
tietac
tietack
tietacks
tietacs
tiettaite
tietze's syndrome
tiewig
tiewigs

Literary usage of Tiered

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Water Use Conflicts in the West: Implications of Reforming the Bureau of by Marca Weinberg (1997)
"Combination 1: Water Markets and tiered Water Prices Combining tiered water prices with provisions for transferring water may render the tiered prices ..."

2. Structural and Other Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals: Report edited by Judith A. McKenna (1994)
"Multi-tiered courts of appeals options Under one four-tiered structure, ... Four-tiered Regional System Structure: US Supreme Court (unchanged) Appellate II ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
"tiered the passenger arrested for refusing to pay, the conductor's conduct tends to show malice. 8. Malice may be inferred from the want of probable cause ..."

4. Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for edited by Ada-Helen Bayer, Frances L. Brisbane, Amelie Ramirez, Leonard G. Epstein (1998)
"Understanding Ethnic-Cultural Diversity: A Double-tiered Phenomenon What do we mean by "ethnic-cultural diversity"? At its simplest level, the concept of ..."

5. Can Grande's Castle by Amy Lowell (1918)
"... horizon, tiered, stately. Sixty-four great thunder-clouds, more perhaps, throwing their shadows over ten miles of sea. Boats dash back and forth. ..."

6. Opinions of Eminent Lawyers, on Various Points of English Jurisprudence by George Chalmers (1814)
"... si tiered of the said act, and am humbly of opinion, that the said Thomas Somers being seised of an estate tail, in the said plantation, and negroes, ..."

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