low-level
[loh-lev-uh l]
- 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.
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Origin of low-level
First recorded in 1880–85
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Contemporary Examples
Summonses for low-level offenses like public drinking and urination fell 94 percent—from 4,831 to 300.
Originally it was a low-level insurgency mainly confined to the Sinai Peninsula .
If they do, the jobs are low-level, part-time, temporary, insecure, and require supplementing with freelancing.
That team fought their way back to the CIA annex with other Americans and sustained a low-level firefight throughout the evening.
The trip was bankrolled by low-level Miami gangster Raul Pacheco, himself already on probation for attempted armed burglary.
Historical Examples
For men of the type in question can be great, at any rate in low-level society.
AnthropologyRobert Marett
But if she remained missing, surely someone would risk a low-level flight to find out if she were waiting desperately for rescue.
Operation TerrorWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins
Typically, the pair makes short, low-level flights from tree to tree with the female invariably in the lead.
Bankers were low-level clerks, who handled a limited repertoire of forms in a prescribed set of ways.
After the RainSam Vaknin
Even in low-level intakes, as I have said, trouble will sometimes arise from the same cause.
The Turkish BathRobert Owen Allsop