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a level of a hierarchy

See a comprehensive dictionary for less common senses of echelon that relate to military formations.

The team has broken into the top echelon of the NBA.

a low-echelon State Department officer
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
Colin Powell
Salaries of middle-echelon executives rose an average of 2%.
That hurdle cleared, my case had to be reviewed by a board and then go through further administrative review by the upper echelon.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
Substitute mount obtained from rear echelon encountered on western flank at 0725.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
I want you to attack en echelon, to take Cemetery Hill in reverse.
Michael Shaara -- The Killer Angels
We needed to increase Party at least into "K's"—say 40,000—with lowest echelons picked for fighting spirit rather than talents we had sought earlier.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Up in the twelve-acre there were six men mowing in echelon.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
You could let your hair grow, he said, and you didn't have to polish your boots or snap off salutes or put up with the usual rear-echelon nonsense.
Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried
He said that the group he represents hopes to sell memberships to high echelon executives in American and foreign companies.
Stephen King -- The Shining
He rolls the window down and a top-echelon Mafia guardsman nails him with the retinal scanner.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
If that floor panel is ever broken, the faceless messenger had told her, it means the upper echelon has been breached.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
He saw philosophy as the highest echelon of the entire hierarchy of knowledge.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Line-astern, Echelon, Arrow-head, Over-cloud: These learn Eternity.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
But they're low echelon and you know Washington.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
There's always been conspiratorial conjecture that a select few within this highest echelon of Masonry are made privy to some great mystical secret.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
On the first day of each month a new code name was chosen for his data, a name made known only to the highest echelon of CIA officers and analysts.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
He was an upper echelon Mason and certainly had ties to the Illuminati.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons

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