英语词汇“hierarchy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	hierarchy
释义	hi·er·ar·chy \ˈhīəˌrärkē, -ˌrȧk-, -ki also ˈhīˌr\ noun (-es) Etymology: Middle English ierarchie, from Middle French ierarchie, hierarchie, from Medieval Latin hierarchia, from Late Greek, from Greek hierarchēs + -ia -y 1. : a rank or order of holy beings — see celestial hierarchy 2. : a form of government administered by an authoritarian group < the company town implies a hierarchy despotically, if benevolently, guiding the lives of those beneath — W.H.Whyte > < the hierarchy relates all units in vertical levels of responsibility — J.E.Pate > especially : control exercised by a priesthood < unlimited centralization of ecclesiastical hierarchy — A.C.N.Gallenga > 3. a. : an authoritarian body of religious officials organized by rank and jurisdiction < the priest, with the hierarchy at his back, was in theory almost everything to his people — G.G.Coulton > < three cardinals and 65 bishops attended the annual meeting of the American hierarchy — Official Catholic Yearbook > < the power … of the great Buddhist hierarchy is nothing less than stupendous — Edith Hamilton > b. : a controlling group of any kind < when all power is centered in the top hierarchy of a single party, there is none left over to serve as a check against the ruling class — A.M.Schlesinger b.1917 > < officials at the pinnacle of the mobilization hierarchy — Wall Street Journal > < the publisher who has … exceeded his proper function by becoming the head and dictator of the newspaper hierarchy — Alistair Cooke > < at the bottom of the hierarchy of managerial personnel are the foremen — Kurt Braun > < rising steadily in the hierarchy of the local Boy Scouts — Brendan Gill > 4. a. : the classification of a group of people with regard to ability or economic or social standing < the function of true criticism is to establish a definite hierarchy among the great artists of the past — C.W.Shumaker > < continuous waves of new immigrants, each pushing the preceding waves upward in the ethnic hierarchy — Richard Hofstadter > < the seating arrangement was an accurate index of the Hollywood hierarchy — Budd Schulberg > b. : a group of people so classified < made his way into the hierarchy of business families in Montreal — Hugh MacLennan > c. : the status attaching to such a group < the social hierarchy that may be associated with possessions — Ruth Benedict > specifically : a graded series of social statuses or class levels < upper and lower class hierarchy in a community > 5. a. : the arrangement of objects, elements, or values in a graduated series < the hierarchy of occupations is based on the degree of skill and responsibility they entail > < government officials determine the hierarchy of importance of affairs of state > b. : a series of objects, elements, or values so arranged < the Supreme Court is the head of a hierarchy of federal courts — Felix Frankfurter > < in the multicellular organism there is a hierarchy of levels — cells, tissues, organs — A.B.Novikoff > specifically logic : a series the members of which are grouped in accordance with a principle (as of importance, perfection or priority) < hierarchy of values > < an ontological hierarchy in which the objects of knowledge are arranged in an ascending order of reality — George Boas > c. : the stratification so achieved < a rigid hierarchy of clubs — R.M.Lovett > specifically : a table of statistical correlations having a constant proportional relationship and graded from high to low
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