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   hierarchy

   /ˈhʌɪ(ə)rɑːki/

   noun

   • 1. 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"

   Word Origin late Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Greek hierarkhia, from hierarkhēs ‘sacred ruler’ (see hierarch). The earliest sense was ‘system of orders of angels and heavenly beings’; the other senses date from the 17th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. hierarchic adjective

   Scrabble Points: 20

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   The meaning of HIERARCHY is a division of angels. How to use hierarchy in a sentence. What did hierarchy originally mean?

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   Hierarchy describes a system that organizes or ranks things, often according to power or importance. At school the principal is at the top of the staff hierarchy, while the seniors rule the student hierarchy.

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   A hierarchy is a system of organizing people into different ranks or levels of importance, for example in society or in a company. Like most other companies with a rigid hierarchy, workers and managers had strictly defined duties.

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   noun. a system of persons or things arranged in a graded order. a body of persons in holy orders organized into graded ranks. the collective body of those so organized. a series of ordered groupings within a system, such as the arrangement of plants and animals into classes, orders, families, etc.

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   Definition of hierarchy noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   HIERARCHY definition: a system or organization in which people or things are arranged according to their importance. Learn more.

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    Definitions of 'hierarchy'. 1. A hierarchy is a system of organizing people into different ranks or levels of importance, for example in society or in a company. [...] 2. The hierarchy of an organization is the group of people who manage and control it. [...] More.

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    noun. hierarchies. A system of church government by priests or other clergy in graded ranks. Webster's New World. Categorization or arrangement of a group of people or things into such ranks or grades. Classification by hierarchy; discounting the effects of hierarchy. American Heritage Medicine.