hierarchy
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hierarchies
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hierarchies
Britannica Dictionary definition of HIERARCHY
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a group that controls an organization and is divided into different levels
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The church hierarchy faced resistance to some of their/its decisions.
2
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a system in which people or things are placed in a series of levels with different importance or status
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He was at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy.
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a rigid hierarchy of social classes
