tiered

1. 1
   adjective

   Having tiers, or built up from a series of levels arranged one above another.

   The new theater has tiered seating, so even the back rows get a clear view of the stage.

   The gym offers tiered memberships, from a basic pass up to a premium plan with classes.

   Similarstepped, layered

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of tier.

   Overnight, the system tiered the old log files to cheaper cloud storage.

   Flat stones had been tiered along the slope to hold back the soil.

   Note

   Storage engineers use the verb for an optimization: data that is tiered moves to cheaper or faster media according to how often it is accessed. Elsewhere it means setting things in layers, as with stones tiered along a slope. The participle reports an action; the everyday adjective describes a shape, as in a tiered wedding cake.

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