low-level

[ loh-lev-uh l ]

/ ˈloʊˈlɛv əl /

undertaken 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.

Nearby words

First recorded in 1880–85

Summonses 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