Definition of "tiering" [tiering]

• Present participle of tier. (verb)

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• "Technically speaking, QoS tiering is not entirely antithetical to some net neutrality proposals (i.e. some proposals allow for QoS tiering)."
• "Rates in the overnight unsecured euro cash markets have widened, in a process traders call "name tiering"."
• "The first leg of that roadmap will be sub-LUN tiering, which is due in the second half of 2010."