echelon in the PONS Dictionary

echelon Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

higher(-echelon) official
служител от висшите ешелони на властта

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He had many friends in the political echelon as well.
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If things went badly for the first line, it would retreat through the gaps and the second echelon moved up- again forming a continuous front.
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Often, the width of the road forces the peloton to form several echelons.
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The single release was a local hit and scraped the lower echelons of the national charts.
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By the mid-1980s, the station had once again fallen into the lower echelons of the ratings and would remain so for the next quarter-century.
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It placed tanks in the striking echelon of the armored division, and placed the infantry in the support echelon.
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The site represents development of the upper echelon of senior military housing, support structures, sports facilities and recreational landscape features from 1901 through 1945.
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The air units were told what to achieve by high echelons, but not how to do it.
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But these constitutional arrangements were far less democratic than they might appear, as elections were rigged heavily in favour of the wealthiest echelon of society.
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Note that the independent columns of the reduced row echelon form are precisely the columns with pivots.
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