What is'Lateral Recruiting' or 'lateral position' in this forum?

Have seen many posts and comments in this forum mentioning 'lateral recruiting', or a 'lateral position', can anyone explain what this means? Isn't this just a synonym to experienced hire?

Thanks.

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