Usually means: Level or rank in hierarchy.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word tier:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tier: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tier: Merriam-Webster
  3. tier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tier, tier: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tier: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tier: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tier, tier: Wordnik
  8. tier: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tier: Wiktionary
  10. tier: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tier: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tier: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tier: Dictionary.com
  14. tier: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tier: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tier (disambiguation), Tier (emission standard), Tier (song), Tier: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tier: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tier: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tier: Rhymezone
  20. Tier (nt), tier: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tier: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tier: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tier: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tier: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tier: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Tier: Lexicon of Linguistics
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  5. tier: Legal dictionary
  6. tier: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tier: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. TIER: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tier: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tier: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  2. tier: Canadian Soil Information System

(Note: See tiered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who ties (knots, etc).
noun:  Something that ties.
noun:  (archaic) A child's apron.
noun:  A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
noun:  A rank or grade; a stratum.
noun:  (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.
noun:  A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
verb:  (transitive) To arrange in layers.
verb:  (transitive) To cascade in an overlapping sequence.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.

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