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Hierarchy

/ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/

A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.

📖 Definitions of "Hierarchy"

noun
  1. 1

    A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.

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