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Hierarchy Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Hierarchy? [n] the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body [n] a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Hierarchy: pecking order \| power structure Related Terms \| Find terms related to Hierarchy: absolute monarchy \| aedileship \| animal kingdom \| archbishopric \| archiepiscopacy \| archiepiscopate \| aristocracy \| autarchy \| autocracy \| autonomy \| bishopric \| bureaucracy \| caste \| chain of being \| chairmanship \| chancellery \| chancellorate \| chancellorship \| chiefery \| chiefry \| chieftaincy \| chieftainry \| chieftainship \| class \| class structure \| coalition government \| colonialism \| commonwealth \| condition \| constitutional government \| constitutional monarchy \| consulate \| consulship \| continuity \| deanery \| degree \| democracy \| dictatorship \| dictature \| directorate \| directorship \| domain \| dominion rule \| duarchy \| duumvirate \| dyarchy \| echelon \| emirate \| episcopacy \| establishment \| federal government \| federation \| feudal system \| footing \| garrison state \| gerontocracy \| governorship \| gradation \| headship \| hegemony \| heteronomy \| hierocracy \| higher echelons \| higher-ups \| home rule \| kingdom \| leadership \| limited monarchy \| lordship \| magistracy \| magistrateship \| magistrature \| management \| martial law \| masterdom \| mastership \| mastery \| mayoralty \| mayorship \| meritocracy \| metropolitanate \| metropolitanship \| militarism \| military government \| mineral kingdom \| ministry \| mob rule \| mobocracy \| monarchy \| natural hierarchy \| neocolonialism \| nobility \| ochlocracy \| officialdom \| oligarchy \| order \| pantisocracy \| papacy \| pashadom \| pashalic \| patriarchate \| patriarchy \| pecking order \| place \| police state \| pontificality \| pontificate \| popedom \| popehood \| popeship \| position \| power structure \| precedence \| prefectship \| prefecture \| prelacy \| premiership \| presidency \| presidentship \| prime-ministership \| prime-ministry \| princedom \| princeship \| principality \| proconsulate \| proconsulship \| protectorate \| protectorship \| provostry \| provostship \| pure democracy \| pyramid \| rank \| rate \| rating \| realm \| rectorate \| rectorship \| regency \| regentship \| representative democracy \| representative government \| republic \| ruling class \| ruling classes \| seigniory \| self-determination \| self-government \| seneschalship \| seneschalsy \| sequence \| serial order \| sheikhdom \| sheriffalty \| sheriffcy \| sheriffdom \| shrievalty \| social democracy \| sphere \| stage \| standing \| station \| status \| stratocracy \| subordination \| supervisorship \| suzerainship \| suzerainty \| technocracy \| the administration \| the authorities \| the Establishment \| the ingroup \| the interests \| the people upstairs \| the power elite \| the power structure \| the top \| thearchy \| them \| theocracy \| they \| top brass \| totalitarian government \| totalitarian regime \| triarchy \| tribunate \| triumvirate \| tyranny \| vegetable kingdom \| vizierate \| viziership \| welfare state See Also \| administration \| brass \| data hierarchy \| establishment \| governance \| governing body \| organisation \| organization \| series \| system \| taxonomy Hierarchy In Webster's Dictionary \Hi"er*arch`y\, n.; pl. {Hierarchies}. [Gr. ?: cf. F. hi['e]rarchie.] 1. Dominion or authority in sacred things. 2. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers. 3. A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests. --Shipley. 4. A rank or order of holy beings. Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees. --Milton.

Hierarchy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hierarchy?

[n] the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
[n] a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Hierarchy: pecking order | power structure

Hierarchy In Webster's Dictionary

\Hi"er*arch`y\, n.; pl. {Hierarchies}. [Gr. ?: cf. F.
hi['e]rarchie.]
1. Dominion or authority in sacred things.

2. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and
   orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of
   ecclesiastical rulers.

3. A form of government administered in the church by
   patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in
   an inferior degree, by priests. --Shipley.

4. A rank or order of holy beings.

         Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve
         Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees. --Milton.

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