hierarchization
- noun
- /ˌhaɪəˌrɑːkɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
jerarquización
- hierarchization of the company's staff helped clarify each person's role and responsibilities.
- internal hierarchization
Examples
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Such transformations are likely to generate increasing concerns among observers and participants regarding the impact of bureaucratization and hierarchization on the relationships among NGOs, their leaders, and the social forces that these organizations claim to represent.
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The internal hierarchization of the Eastern Adriatic communication system occurred because of the locational advantage of particular places in the network.
Academic text (1993) -
All of which sets in motion a nexus of desire and control that is used to sustain social hierarchization.
Academic text (1999) -
Similar processes of external and internal hierarchization can be observed in the eastern Adriatic network, which was almost entirely dominated by Venice.
Academic text (1993) -
His metacultural discourse concerned the naturalization and hierarchization of gender identity in the local culture.
Academic text (1992) -
The distance that Gertru detects suggests vertical hierarchization as well as alienation.
Academic text (1997) -
Although the whole Dalmatian province was dominated by Venice for approximately 360 years, the neighborhoods of particular places added to the locational advantage, allowing an internal hierarchization of the system.
Academic text (1993) -
Away from old, static forms of social hierarchization, the fourteenth century favors a contractual structure that places the emphasis on the voluntary nature of the relation between individuals in society and between humans and God.
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They want, rather, to demonstrate that differences can coexist beside one another, that it is the differends that must disappear in favor of peace, because they necessarily entail a hierarchization of differences on everybody's part.
Academic text (1995) -
If Mariane represents the obedient, successfully feminized object, Dorine is the rebellious female subject who refuses to accept absolute hierarchization and univocality, who will not relinquish her speech.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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5.8
A system that puts people and things in order by rank or power
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7.9
The division of people into classes with different wealth and power
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5.7
An arrangement of people or things in levels with higher levels controlling lower ones
1
7.8
An order of parts or ideas that makes them easy to understand
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3.9
A list of people or things arranged from most to least important
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
Arranging items inside other items to make levels
How Hierarchical
Surface Forms
Morphology
hierarchization = hierarchize (transparent) = hierarchy + ize + ation
Formed by adding the nominalizing suffix '-ation' to the verb 'hierarchize', a standard and semantically direct process.
Etymology
Hierarchization comes from hierarchy, which has Greek parts hieros 'sacred' and arch 'rule', the same arch you see in monarch. A helpful image is making a ladder of ranks, putting people or things into higher and lower levels, so the word means arranging or creating an order of ranks.