Words Like HIERARCHY
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9 definitions of hierarchy
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A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
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Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
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The power or dominion of a hierarch; hallowed or consecrated authority in what concerns religious order or government.
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Government by ecclesiastical rulers; an ecclesiastical or priestly form of government. —
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An order of holy beings regarded as employed in divine government.
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A body of persons organized in ranks and orders for the exercise of rule oversacred things; hence, an organized body of ecclesiastics intrusted with government of either church or state; also, a similarly organized body of officials in other systems of government: as, the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
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In science, a series of successive terms of different rank. The terms kingdom, order, suborder, family, genus, and species constitute a hierarchy in zoölogy.
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a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
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the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body