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pecking order

班级秩序,顺序,班辈关系,班辈

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
    • : a sequence or hierarchy of authority in an organization or social group.

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Examples

  • Brooklyn’s remaining star in Durant can and will do more for the Nets, but Griffin will have to slide up in the pecking order when he’s on the floor.

  • There’s going to be clear winners and losers, and the pecking order of the industry is going to change.

  • The team’s injury issues have thrust him forward in the pecking order, to the point where his success or failure at handling the playoff crucible seems likely to be a determinative in the Nuggets’ ultimate fortunes.

  • There’s also a pecking order within each of these disciplines.

  • Given the Bulls’ place in the pecking order, the 2021 pick is probably going to land in the late-lottery, or just outside it, this year.

  • And in order for them to realize their vision, they are willing to use any means.

  • He could order the Justice Department to begin the necessary regulatory work.

  • So, in an unusual order (PDF) issued on New Years Day, District Judge Robert Hinkle clarified the issue.

  • So working with the militants in order to deliver aid “becomes a requirement,” she said.

  • Just how many fake nodes would be needed in order to pull off a successful Sybil attack against Tor is not known.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

  • Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

  • Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.

  • Dockier, a prominent leader of the Levelers, in the times of the English commonwealth, was shot by order of the government.

  • Yet if there is a measure of untruth in such pretty flatteries, one needs to be superhuman in order to condemn them harshly.