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"it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art" "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"adjectiveclassified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers
Definition that contains hierarchic
- fascism a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)
- tenure the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands
- unranked not arranged in order hierarchically
- ungraded not arranged in order hierarchically
- ontology (computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations
- stratified (used of society) socially hierarchical
- unordered not arranged in order hierarchically
- hierarchical classification system a classification system where entries are arranged based on some hierarchical structure
- pyramid scheme a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in
- hierarchically in a hierarchical manner