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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Appropriate for or one who is new to something, such as a job or activity.
  • adjective Of or relating to a job or position that requires little experience and is low in a hierarchy.
  • adjective Appropriate for a beginner; basic.

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  • adjective simple enough to be appropriate to an inexperienced person, or to someone who does not need advanced features

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Examples

  • This guy’s rods sold for what you could call an entry-level price for bamboo and they were surprisingly good, but he said he had no aspirations about turning pro.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • This guy’s rods sold for what you could call an entry-level price for bamboo and they were surprisingly good, but he said he had no aspirations about turning pro.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • This guy’s rods sold for what you could call an entry-level price for bamboo and they were surprisingly good, but he said he had no aspirations about turning pro.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • This guy’s rods sold for what you could call an entry-level price for bamboo and they were surprisingly good, but he said he had no aspirations about turning pro.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • "The idea is to work with local raw materials, source everything locally to cut the supply-chain waste," adds Mr. Stillhart, the company's head of coffee and so-called popularly positioned products—the entry-level food and drinks aimed at lower-income consumers—in Indonesia.

    Global Food Firms Stir Local Ingredients John Revill 2011

  • The D450 series are entry-level 720p plasma TVs available in new 43- and 51-inch screen sizes, which are enabled by an ultra-narrow bezel design that squeezes an extra inch of screen size without increasing the overall dimensions of the set.

    Samsung's 2011 TV lineup: Smart TV, Smart Hub, apps market 2011

  • Tait says: There are few entry-level roles for fundraisers and most charities want fundraisers with experience.

    Direct marketing fundraisers to get bespoke course 2011

  • If I hadn't gone to Northwestern, I'd be in an entry-level position in a field that would no longer need my old-school reporting-and-writing skill set.

    Justin Cox: Is Journalism Grad School Worth It? Justin Cox 2011

  • It's like an entry-level version of the iPhone and a challenge to RIM's BlackBerry Messenger.

    How Apple eclipsed Microsoft 2011

  • MacBook Air Price Cut: Apple also cut the entry-level price of its ultra-thin MacBook to $1,499.

    What Apple Announced Today at WWDC 2009

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