Hierarchy: definition, pronunciation, transcription, word forms, examples

the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body

put honesty first in her hierarchy of values

a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system

The church hierarchy faced resistance to some of their decisions.

He was at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy.

She worked her way up through the corporate hierarchy to become president.

…regarded the new couple as a pair of interloping parvenus who were sure to upset the town’s social hierarchy…

I soon discovered I was at the bottom of the pile in the office hierarchy.

The number of women decreases as you ascend the professional hierarchy.

Those who count four classes in the social hierarchy commit the error of coordinating subclasses and classes. (The Institutes of Gaius, 1884)

Donations have fallen since the split in the party hierarchy.