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单词 hierarchy
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hierarchy

noun
 OPAL W
/ˈhaɪərɑːki/
/ˈhaɪərɑːrki/
(plural hierarchies)
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  1.  
    [countable, uncountable] a system, especially in a society or an organization, in which people are organized into different levels of importance from highest to lowest
    • the social/political hierarchy
    • She's quite high up in the management hierarchy.
    Extra Examples
    • He joined the party in 1966 and quickly moved up the hierarchy.
    • She is above me in the hierarchy.
    • There was a clear hierarchy of power in the company.
    • At the bottom of the corporate hierarchy are part-time low-paid workers.
    • In most large families there is a hierarchy of age, with the older siblings having more status.
    • Why does there need to be such a strict hierarchy within the church?
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • complex
    • rigid
    • strict
    verb + hierarchy
    • create
    • develop
    • establish
    hierarchy + verb
    • be based on something
    preposition
    • in a/​the hierarchy
    • within a/​the hierarchy
    • hierarchy of
    phrases
    • somebody’s level, position, status, etc. in a hierarchy
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  2. [countable + singular or plural verb] the group of people in control of a large organization or institution
    • It was on orders from the party hierarchy that she dropped the investigation.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • complex
    • rigid
    • strict
    verb + hierarchy
    • create
    • develop
    • establish
    hierarchy + verb
    • be based on something
    preposition
    • in a/​the hierarchy
    • within a/​the hierarchy
    • hierarchy of
    phrases
    • somebody’s level, position, status, etc. in a hierarchy
    See full entry
  3. [countable] (formal) a system that ideas or beliefs can be arranged into according to their importance
    • a hierarchy of needs
  4. Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Greek hierarkhia, from hierarkhēs ‘sacred ruler’, from hieros ‘sacred’ + arkhēs ‘ruler’. The earliest sense was ‘system of orders of angels and heavenly beings’; the other senses date from the 17th cent.
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