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hierarchy

/hahy-uh-rahr-kee, hahy-rahr-/US // ˈhaɪ əˌrɑr ki, ˈhaɪ rɑr- //UK // (ˈhaɪəˌrɑːkɪ) //

等级制度,层次结构,层次制度,层次结构图

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural hi·er·ar·chies.

    • : any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
    • : government by ecclesiastical rulers.
    • : the power or dominion of a hierarch.
    • : an organized body of ecclesiastical officials in successive ranks or orders: the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
    • : one of the three divisions of the angels, each made up of three orders, conceived as constituting a graded body.
    • : Also called celestial hierarchy . the collective body of angels.
    • : government by an elite group.
    • : Linguistics. the system of levels according to which a language is organized, as phonemic, morphemic, syntactic, or semantic.

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Examples

  • However, if you begin to look carefully at sentences, what you find is that they are organized in this hierarchy.

  • Forbes was generally a pretty platooned place, and there was a hierarchy and knowledge was exchanged very judiciously in the ranks.

  • Usually, at some point below board level, someone in the hierarchy doesn’t have time to think purely about organic non-brand clicks.

  • Upfronts upendedAs the playing field levels between the TV companies and the streaming platforms, the hierarchy for upfront negotiations has the potential to be upended.

  • We try to understand the ways in which hierarchies are created and maintained.

  • Copies of the letter were sent to senior members of the church hierarchy and to the Soviet government.

  • Absolutely: “Courage I would rank now in the hierarchy of art and love.”

  • It was, I have to say, at the bottom of the hierarchy of royal honors, a British Empire Medal.

  • Information received from the different branches of the ISIS network is channeled up through a strict hierarchy.

  • A strong sense of hierarchy took root as the schools expanded.

  • Later still, for the same reason, when he was making his hierarchy stronger, he created him one of his new Dukes.

  • Under a Philippine hierarchy there would be a danger of the natives reverting to paganism and fetichism.

  • As our oldest member used to say, "A society without a hierarchy is like a house without a staircase."

  • This hierarchy of all feudal seigniories existed in name only, never in fact.

  • Without sifting the nature of Beauty, without giving some definition of it, nobody can attempt to construct a Hierarchy of Art.