hierarchy
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈhaɪəˌrɑrki/
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jerarquía
- Understanding the hierarchy of authority in the workplace can help employees navigate their roles better.
- a social hierarchy
- hierarchy of authority
- a status hierarchy
It seems that humans form hierarchies naturally.
- It seems that humans form hierarchies naturally.
- First of all, you have to understand how the hierarchies are put together.
- And there you had a really rigid hierarchy with a lot of leverage.
- Not quite the same thing as the hierarchy of values.
- You all know that in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the foundation is trust.
- It became a question of norm, hierarchy of norms.
- Physiology is low on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
- What matters is you know the hierarchy of power.
- And then there is no hierarchy to them.
- But maybe there's a in this competency hierarchy.
- And that would be in terms of a protein hierarchy.
- When you don't sleep good, your hierarchy of needs changes.
- There's sort of a hierarchy here going on.
Examples
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You all know that in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the foundation is trust.
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In many organizations, the hierarchy dictates how decisions are made and who gets promoted.
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So we have kind of this hierarchy of classes.
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What matters is you know the hierarchy of power.
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So, they put them at the bottom of the hierarchy.
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And the problem is that this culture has clearly defined hierarchy.
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Originally consisting of nine categories, the system is a hierarchy of statements reflecting different levels of thinking.
Academic text (1990) -
In Hungary, there was a communist-ordered hierarchy of control, with the state at the top.
Academic text (1999) -
If a conflict escalated, higher authorities in the administrative hierarchy could be appealed to.
Academic text (1999) -
Search directories all provide a structured hierarchy of categories listed by general topics.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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3.5
A system in an organization where instructions move from people at the top to people below
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4.4
How people in a group share authority and influence
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4.2
How people in a group are arranged by who has more power or status
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5.7
An arrangement of people or things in levels with higher levels controlling lower ones
A way to arrange things in levels from broad to specific
A way of organising information in levels like a tree
An arrangement of data in levels where groups contain smaller groups, like folders and files
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
An arrangement of data in levels where groups contain smaller groups, like folders and files
How Hierarchical
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5.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word hierarchy comes from Greek parts hieros 'sacred' and -archy 'rule', the same -archy you see in monarchy. It first meant 'rule by the sacred' or church leaders, so today hierarchy still describes a system of ranks or levels of power.