hierarchy

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(noun.)

ADJ

complex

rigid, strict

The company maintained a strict hierarchy where only senior managers could make important decisions.

administrative, bureaucratic, corporate, management, managerial, organizational | class, social | church, ecclesiastical

party, political

She worked her way up through the political hierarchy to become a senior minister.

military

VERB + HIERARCHY

create, establish

The school established a clear hierarchy so that students knew who to report problems to.

move up, rise in/through

She rose through the hierarchy to become the company's first female director.

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in a/the ~

My manager is several levels above me in the hierarchy at our company.

within a/the ~

Different departments within the company hierarchy have their own budgets and responsibilities.

~ of

In most schools, there is a hierarchy of authority that students need to understand and respect.

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sb's level/position/status in a hierarchy

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1

A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.

Gay men and bisexuals were blamed for the [AIDS] epidemic for much the same reason that the church hierarchy in the Middle Ages accused Jewish people of creating bubonic plague by "poisoning the wells."

The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.

2

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.

Social defeat arises in strict social hierarchies in which the few dominate the many. Overcrowding exacerbates the many ills of social defeat within these social hierarchies based on dominance.

3

Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.

... the surviving portions provide enough detail to outline its principal features: the hierarchy of beings to whom his liturgy was to be addressed (we previously considered Plethon's hierarchy of gods in our examination of his Summary[…]

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Gay men and bisexuals were blamed for the [AIDS] epidemic for much the same reason that the church hierarchy in the Middle Ages accused Jewish people of creating bubonic plague by "poisoning the wells

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The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, re

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Social defeat arises in strict social hierarchies in which the few dominate the many. Overcrowding exacerbates the many ills of social defeat within these social hierarchies based on dominance.

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The hierarchy of rank has long been fixed.

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There's a very rigid hierarchy in the Civil Service.

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Japanese companies emphasize hierarchy.

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