echelon
noun
a level of command, authority, or rank.
echeloned
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past participleof echelon.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof echelon.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
echelonnouna level of command, authority, or rank.
Example Sentences
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"Together with our partners we’re working on an integrated & echeloned air defense system. We are preparing for winter on the battlefield," he wrote.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2022
General Clark, back in Vienna, had a military metaphor that summed up the conference: "Russia gave us impossible demands, echeloned in depth."
From Time Magazine Archive
Details such as the echeloned curls, sinuous eyebrows, and almond-shaped eyes of the Girl with a Late Period Bob were painstakingly sculpted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scammon's officers in the reserve saw them as soon as Rodman's brigades echeloned, as these were toward the front and right.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob Dolson Cox
A regiment of infantry was massed in rear of the Palais d'Orsay; a regiment of dragoons was echeloned along the quay.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo
