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echelon

An echelon is a level or rank in an organization, profession, or society. An echelon is a formation of troops, ships in diagonal parallel rows.

echelon

a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset a body of troops arranged in a line

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Kind of rough on rear echelon tonight.
You were one of the rear echelon heroes who hid on Gen. Butler's staff. while better men were getting killed in battle.
Well, it was covered up by the higher echelon.
Plan R is an emergency war plan in which a lower-echelon commander may order nuclear retaliation after a sneak attack if the normal chain of command has been disrupted.
Fearfully top army echelon, are they?
I want you to get orders to the highest echelon. stating to Colonel Everett Dasher Breed. that a group, over which he will have no authority, will be arriving Tuesday. and the identity of the men is secret.
We are upper-echelon cat burglars. and don't you forget it, Mr. Butterfly.
You see, rear echelon is giving the stuff out with an eyedropper.
May I rejoin the rear echelon now?
People from the rear echelon. Tomczyk.
What rear echelon?
Second echelon people.
Join formation with me, echelon right. And keep it tight.
Rear echelon paranoia.
Plan R is an emergency war plan. in which a lower echelon commander may order. nuclear retaliation after a sneak attack. if the normal chain of command has been disrupted.
All rear echelon drivers have orders not to exceed 40 miles an hour.
Yeah, this calls for higher-echelon thinking.
All these years in the rear echelon have not only softened your body, they have softened your brain.
What do they have in the 1st echelon?
The first echelon includes the 57th Tank Corps composed of four divisions, two of them tank divisions.
Lowest possible echelon, of course.
That means, that whoever it is belongs to the highest echelon of Roffe.
Someone in the highest echelon of Roffe?
Who is in the first echelon?
And then there's the third echelon.
The upper echelon.
Past couple weeks, I've been preparing for the upper echelon. and this weekend if I get all my work done.
The trouble with entering the upper echelon. is you have to work harder to stay in it.
People from the rear echelon.
The upper echelon are slowly going too far.
It was crowded, there were just two places to stand in the upper echelon, and they were too expensive for commoners.
An upper-echelon job there.

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