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What does hierarchy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hierarchy? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
  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. Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
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The natural desire for social ranking is satisfied by a hierarchy of authority and recognition that honors people for their public service.
In the very act of rejecting hierarchies of value, relativism constructs a hierarchy, which values its own relativism above any absolutism.
Even then her work challenged the classical ideal that a well-tempered whole must bind the parts in a structured hierarchy.
They were mistrustful of the old labor hierarchy that had lost the power and will to improve the lives of rank-and-file dockers and sailors.
The rest are stuck at the lower and middle levels of the managerial hierarchy.
Upon visiting the home page, the user types in the name of the site, rather than drilling down a hierarchy of categorized links.

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