Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🧩 With many layers 🏢 With many floors
multilevel

multilevel

5 4.1
An organization or system with several layers where people have different levels of power
  • adjective
  • /ˈmʌltiˌlɛvəl/
translation icon : multinivel
  • Together, as one component of a multilevel intervention, these behaviors may help prevent disordered eating and obesity.
  • multilevel modeling
  • multilevel models
  • multilevel analysis

Examples

  • The company uses a multilevel marketing strategy, allowing sales representatives to earn a commission from their recruits.

  • Given the existence of between-school variance, the development of a multilevel model was warranted.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Social work practitioners may address these multilevel risk factors through group work.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Most nurses provide care in healthcare organizations that are characterized as complex, multilevel, and multifunctional.

    Academic text (2013)

  • WTA's business model probably has more in common with multilevel marketing than with conventional auto industry ventures.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Second, we modeled student mathematics growth using multilevel, longitudinal analyses (Raudenbush & Bryk, 2002).

    Academic text (2015)

  • In a multilevel organization, managers oversee teams at different layers to enhance productivity.

  • The multilevel structure of the software allows users to navigate through various tiers of information.

Synonyms

hierarchical
vsmultilevel
36 6.7

Placed in levels with some people having more power than others

stresses structured rank while also fitting layered organizational systems
tiered
vsmultilevel
6 4.2

Having levels one above another, like seats or a cake

implies organizational layering where authority or rewards flow across levels
vertical
vsmultilevel
5 4.2

Relating to higher and lower levels in a society, like income or class

applies to relations across ranks within organizations rather than general systems
multilayered
vsmultilevel
4 4.8

Something that has several parts on different levels

focuses more on organizational layers and authority than on mere complexity
multitiered
vsmultilevel
1 4.4

Having several levels one above another, like stadium seating

is used for layered organizations with ranks and cross layer authority
multileveled
vsmultilevel
3.8

Having several levels, like a building or an organization

focuses on organizations arranged in layers with rank and possible commissions
hierarchal
vsmultilevel
6.9

Arranged in levels with higher and lower ranks, like in a company

is the broader term for layered organization involving ranks and rewards
hierarchic
vsmultilevel
7.5

Having levels where some parts have more power or importance

describes layered arrangements specifically used in organizations with rank

Antonyms

flat
797 1.0

Level and even without parts higher or lower

How Many Levels

multilevel
5 4.1

Surface Forms

multilevel positive

Morphology

multilevel = level (transparent) = multi + level

The general idea of multiple layers is directly signaled by 'multi-' plus 'level', even in the specialized organizational sense.

Etymology

Multilevel comes from the parts multi- meaning 'many', as in multiple, and level meaning 'a layer'. So a multilevel system or company has many layers of people or groups.