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Hierarchy
ˈhʌɪ(ə)rɑːki
Hierarchy definitions
noun
hierarchies
hierarchy
- a system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority
"the initiative was with those lower down in the hierarchy"
- the clergy of the Catholic Church or of an episcopal Church
"the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Romania"
- the upper echelons of a hierarchical system
"the magazine was read quite widely even by some of the hierarchy"
- an arrangement or classification of things according to relative importance or inclusiveness
"a taxonomic hierarchy of phyla, classes, orders, families, genera, and species"
- the traditional system of orders of angels and other heavenly beings
"the heavenly hierarchy"