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nounthe organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
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"put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"nouna series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
Definition that contains hierarchy
- order (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy
- rank position in a social hierarchy
- slot a position in a hierarchy or organization
- vertical of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group)
- archangel an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy
- hierarch a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy
- underclass the social class lowest in the social hierarchy
- comtism Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top
- western church the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy
- roman catholic church the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy