Usually means: Levels of authority or command.
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  1. echelons: Merriam-Webster
  2. echelons: Collins English Dictionary
  3. echelons: Vocabulary.com
  4. Echelon's, echelon's, echelons: Wordnik
  5. echelons: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. echelons: Wiktionary
  7. echelons: Dictionary.com
  8. Echelons (album), Echelons: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. echelons: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. echelons: Legal dictionary

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  1. echelons: Encyclopedia

(Note: See echelon as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Echelon)

noun:  A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.
noun:  (cycling) A line of riders seeking maximum drafting in a crosswind, resulting in a diagonal line across the road.
noun:  (military) A formation of troops, ships, etc., in diagonal parallel rows.
verb:  (transitive, military) To form troops into an echelon.
adjective:  (linear algebra) Of a matrix: having undergone Gaussian elimination with the result that the leading coefficient or pivot (that is, the first nonzero number from the left) of a nonzero row is to the right of the pivot of the row above it, giving rise to a stepped appearance in the matrix.
noun:  An international SIGINT network to monitor and gather intelligence from satellite trunk communications.
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