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echelon
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echelon as in:  upper echelons of the company

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    She wasn't delivering her children to the higher echelons of Munich, but a foster home had apparently been found, and if nothing else, the new family could at least feed the girl and the boy a little better, and educate them properly.  (source)
    echelons = levels of a hierarchy
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    A patron in the upper echelons of the Party?  (source)
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    If that floor panel is ever broken, the faceless messenger had told her, it means the upper echelon has been breached.  (source)
    echelon = level
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    Then my grades would put me right up in the top echelon.†  (source)
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    The regime created an instant pool of such women by the simple tactic of declaring all second marriages and nonmarital liaisons adulterous, arresting the female partners, and, on the grounds that they were morally unfit, confiscating the children they already had, who were adopted by childless couples of the upper echelons who were eager for progeny by any means.†  (source)
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    He rolls the window down and a top-echelon Mafia guardsman nails him with the retinal scanner.†  (source)
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    All memos were signed Captain-this or Lieutenant-that if they originated from the lower echelons; or Colonel-this and Brigadier-that if they came down from on high.†  (source)
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    Substitute mount obtained from rear echelon encountered on western flank at 0725.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    Skimberry was the maintenance man of the Bluffton district and because of a decree emanating from the high echelons of the educational hierarchy, Zeke was designated as the official guardian of my boat.†  (source)
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    He said that the group he represents hopes to sell memberships to high echelon executives in American and foreign companies.†  (source)
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    He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire.†  (source)
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