first tier
noun [S]Definition
› the first or highest level of something: The Senate plan required that the commission fund the first tier and allowed it to fund the second tier only if enough money was available.
first-tier adjective [only before noun] › When we talk about the field, we talk about certain tiers of candidates: first-tier candidate, second-tier candidates, and underdogs.(Definition of first tier noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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