单词 | two-tier |
释义 | > as lemmastwo-tier two-tier adj. usu. figurative ΚΠ 1932 Times 26 Nov. 12/3 If their system were a two-tier system, the element of uncertainty was reduced to a minimum. 1933 Times 9 Nov. 9/2 Before leaving the building they paused to visit one of the new two-tier book-stacks on the ground floor. 1937 Burlington Mag. Oct. 194/1 Ionic impost capitals,..two-tier capitals. 1969 Punch 1 Jan. 26/3 It is now working a good deal harder and will work even harder still when the reforms with their two-tier system of voting and non-voting but speaking Peers come into force. 1975 J. P. Morgan House of Lords & Labour Govt. ii. 75 The House can be persistent when an issue catches its imagination—favourites of the 1966–70 Parliament were decimal currency, the two-tier postal service, and the anti-Stansted campaign. < as lemmas |
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