Definitions for "Tiering"
A method of directing benefits of federal price support programs toward smaller or medium size farms. Under tiering, deficiency payments per unit of production would be higher for a limited number of bushels and lower for quantities beyond that amount.
Different pay schedules offered by cable systems to subscribers for added channels of programming.
This is the strategy of charging for levels of programming in the cable industry.
"Tiering" refers to the coverage of general matters in broader Environmental Impact Statements (such as national program or policy statements); subsequent narrower statements or environmental analyses (such as regional or ultimately site-specific statements) are "tiered" to the broader, general statements and incorporate them by reference. The narrower statements concentrate solely on the issues specific to the site.