单词	pecking order
释义	pecking orderˈpecking ˌorder noun [singular] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES He seems to have dropped down the Hollywood pecking order. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Beneath that principled veneer students were hammering out the usual adolescent pecking order. But normally the pecking order works out by itself. Even many six-year-olds already know that there is a reader pecking order in their classrooms. Horses with the highest self-esteem are likely to be found at the top of their pecking order. Males compete with one another for places in a pecking order. Occasionally a foal thinks we are pretty low in the pecking order and decides to kick us. Patients are at the bottom of the pecking order and have very little say in the running of services. word sets WORD SETS► Sociology abdicate, verbaffirmative action, nounage discrimination, nounageism, nounalienation, nounalmshouse, nounbackground, nounbeatnik, nounbeggar, nounbetterment, nounbirthrate, nounbohemian, adjectivebondage, nouncarer, nouncaretaker, nouncase work, nouncaste, nouncity planning, nouncommoner, nounconditioning, nounconsumer society, nounculture, noundisease, noundosser, noundoss house, noundown-and-out, noundownwardly mobile, adjectiveeuthanasia, nounformative, adjectivegenteel, adjectivegentlefolk, noungentleman, noungentlewoman, noungentry, noungeriatric, adjectivegerontology, noungrey, adjectivehermit, nounhierarchy, nounhippie, nounHonourable, adjectiveindependence, nounindustrialism, nouninequality, nouninfrastructure, nouninner city, nouninstitution, nouninstitutionalize, verbintegrate, verbliteracy, nounlower class, nounlow life, nounmatrix, nounmeritocracy, nounmobile, adjectivemores, nounmortality, nounNew Age traveller, nounorder, nounoutreach, nounpatriarchy, nounpecking order, nounpeer pressure, nounpetty bourgeois, adjectiveplebeian, nounpolitics, nounprogress, nounrank, nounreaction, nounrear, verbreceive, verbredneck, nounrevolution, nounsecularism, nounservice, nounsexual, adjectivesister, nounslave, nounslavery, nounsnowbird, nounsocial, adjectivesocial, nounsocialization, nounsocial science, nounsocial studies, nounsocial work, nounsocial worker, nounsociety, nounsocio-, prefixsocioeconomic, adjectivesoup kitchen, nounstratified, adjectivestratum, nounstreet people, nounsubgroup, nounsuburbanite, nounsuburbia, nounsupport group, nountownie, nountown meeting, nountown planning, nountownspeople, nountramp, noununattached, adjectiveuncle, noununconventional, adjectiveunderclass, nounupwardly mobile, adjectivewhite-collar, adjectiveworking class, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► at the bottom of the pecking order  Nobody wants to be at the bottom of the pecking order. a social system within a group of people or animals in which each member knows who has a higher or lower rank than themselves:  Nobody wants to be at the bottom of the pecking order.
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