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[ loh-lev-uhl ] / ˈloʊˈlɛv əl /
adjectiveundertaken by or composed of members having a low status: a low-level discussion. having low status: low-level personnel. undertaken at or from a low altitude: low-level bombing. Linguistics. occurring or operating at the phonetic level of linguistic representation or analysis: low-level rules governing assimilation. Origin of low-levelFirst recorded in 1880–85 Words nearby low-levellowland, Lowlander, lowland gorilla, Lowlands, Low Latin, low-level, low-level language, low-level waste, lowlife, lowlight, lowlihead Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for low-levelSummonses for low-level offenses like public drinking and urination fell 94 percent—from 4,831 to 300. Ground Zero of the NYPD Slowdown|Batya Ungar-Sargon|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST Originally it was a low-level insurgency mainly confined to the Sinai Peninsula . ISIS Wannabes Claim They Killed an American in Egypt|Jamie Dettmer|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST If they do, the jobs are low-level, part-time, temporary, insecure, and require supplementing with freelancing. How to Get Laid in Brooklyn a la Adelle Waldman’s Nifty Novel of Manners|Tom LeClair|July 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST That team fought their way back to the CIA annex with other Americans and sustained a low-level firefight throughout the evening. General: We Didn't Even Try To Save American Lives In Benghazi|Eli Lake|May 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The trip was bankrolled by low-level Miami gangster Raul Pacheco, himself already on probation for attempted armed burglary. MLB’s Next Headache: Cartels, Gangsters, and Their Cuban Superstars|Peter C. Bjarkman|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST Uplift and erosion to lower Pleistocene baselevel; deposition of low-level Columbia. History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia|James W. Head Even in low-level intakes, as I have said, trouble will sometimes arise from the same cause. The Turkish Bath|Robert Owen Allsop For men of the type in question can be great, at any rate in low-level society. Anthropology|Robert Marett Fish abound in its waters, which are sweet, save at low-level, when they become brackish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7|Various The close co-ordination between our fighter units and the low-level bombers will be secured by a system of code signals. A Yankee Flier in Italy|Rutherford G. Montgomery
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