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tri- +‎ tiered

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tri-tiered (not comparable) (rare)

  1. Having three tiers.
    • 1999, Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi, Exporting Communication Technology to Developing Countries, →ISBN, page 69:
      The architecture of the program will be tri-tiered; the global tier which connects major geographic regions, the regional tier which connects countries within a geographic region, and the domestic tier that will connect population centers within a country.

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