hierarchy
IPA: hˈaɪɝɑrki
noun
- A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
- A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.
- Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
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Examples of "hierarchy" in Sentences
- Coercion is the basis of hierarchy.
- The analytical hierarchy of formulas.
- Relationship to the analytical hierarchy.
- Also, this scale is not the sonority hierarchy.
- At the lowest rung of the hierarchy are the Telis.
- At the top of this feudal hierarchy, there is the King.
- The conquistadors accepted and lauded hierarchy and rank.
- The rank remains in use in the paramilitary police hierarchy.
- The monastery ranks eighth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries.
- The monastery ranks sixteenth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries.
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