hierarchy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/, /ˈhaɪ.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/
hierarchy (plural hierarchies)
- A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
- A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.
- Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
- French: hiérarchie
- German: Hierarchie
- Italian: gerarchia
- Portuguese: hierarquia
- Russian: иера́рхия
- Spanish: jerarquía
- German: Hierarchie, Rangordnung
- Portuguese: hierarquia
- Russian: иера́рхия
- Spanish: jerarquía
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