Synonym: pecking order, power structure. Similar words: anarchy, monarchy, oligarchy, patriarchy, cashier, hieroglyph, march, hieroglyphics. Meaning: ['haɪərɑrkɪ /-rɑːk-] n. 1. a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system 2. the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body.
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31. For decades rigid party hierarchy determined political fortunes.
32. This linguistic hierarchy went against my grain.
33. The caste system categorized Hindus into a social hierarchy.
34. The government is a hierarchy.
35. Discrimination descends through a hierarchy of the subordinate.
36. A hierarchy is seen as stultifying,(sentencedict.com/hierarchy.html) rigid and caste-like.
37. Heavily backed by the Catholic hierarchy, it had an agenda of combating Mafia crime.
38. What we need is managerial hierarchy that understands its own nature and purpose.
39. Gradually, though, hierarchy is giving way to more horizontal structures with complex yet flexible webs of interconnection.
40. These included some engineering schemes such as bridges and tunnels[sentencedict.com], but the most interesting feature was undoubtedly the hierarchy of networks.
41. Information systems should be integrated with the business plan at all three layers of the management hierarchy.
42. The difference in the relative mortality of the extremes of the class hierarchy decrease with age.
43. Partnership prevails over hierarchy in most professional service firms like McKinsey.
44. Hierarchy implodes, not because some one theorizes that it should but because under these conditions it can not be maintained.
45. Ostentatiously non-sectarian, Larkin was invariably opposed by the Catholic hierarchy on social issues.
46. Therefore, I had no doubt the right kinds of overarching principles were flowing from the top of the Honda hierarchy.
47. Operation Rescue was an organization with a strict hierarchy of command.
48. As Dante climbed through a hierarchy of heavens, he ascended a hierarchy of rank.
49. Forward-thinking organisations have restructured themselves so that adherence to strict hierarchy and title is less significant.
50. An official orthodoxy based on Neo-Confucian doctrines emphasized the preservation of order and maintenance of social hierarchy.
51. There seemed to be a strict hierarchy of beauty and desirability.
52. In accepting the unofficial payment, the hierarchy had to be respected.
53. Only after they were dead, it seemed, did the hierarchy begin to enquire into performance.
54. In the social hierarchy, these lords of big business were the equivalent of the daimyos of the past with their clans.
55. The dazzle effect of grids can be subdued by establishing a hierarchy of one set of parallels over another.
56. As officials move up the hierarchy they may be more involved in policy advice rather than managing budgets or people.
57. The emerging New Forms of production demand ever higher levels of skill in the workforce at all levels in the hierarchy.
58. The dominance hierarchies of primates are often more complex, overlapping networks, rather than the simple ladder of the hen hierarchy.
59. Students would have been in the position of enlightening the faculty, and that would disrupt the existing hierarchy.
60. The people of Holy Trinity espouse similar values in the face of an unpersuaded Catholic hierarchy.
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