hierarchy
- noun
- /ˈhaɪəˌrɑrki/
- 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.
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In Hungary, there was a communist-ordered hierarchy of control, with the state at the top.
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If a conflict escalated, higher authorities in the administrative hierarchy could be appealed to.
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Search directories all provide a structured hierarchy of categories listed by general topics.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
A system in an organization where instructions move from people at the top to people below
How people in a group share authority and influence
How people in a group are arranged by who has more power or status
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
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.