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单词 hierarchy
释义 hi·er·ar·chy
\ˈhīəˌrärkē, -ˌrȧk-, -ki also ˈhīˌr\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English ierarchie, from Middle French ierarchie, hierarchie, from Medieval Latin hierarchia, from Late Greek, from Greek hierarchēs + -ia -y
1. : a rank or order of holy beingssee celestial hierarchy
2. : a form of government administered by an authoritarian group
 < the company town implies a hierarchy despotically, if benevolently, guiding the lives of those beneath — W.H.Whyte >
 < the hierarchy relates all units in vertical levels of responsibility — J.E.Pate >
especially : control exercised by a priesthood
 < unlimited centralization of ecclesiastical hierarchy — A.C.N.Gallenga >
3.
 a. : an authoritarian body of religious officials organized by rank and jurisdiction
  < the priest, with the hierarchy at his back, was in theory almost everything to his people — G.G.Coulton >
  < three cardinals and 65 bishops attended the annual meeting of the American hierarchyOfficial Catholic Yearbook >
  < the power … of the great Buddhist hierarchy is nothing less than stupendous — Edith Hamilton >
 b. : a controlling group of any kind
  < when all power is centered in the top hierarchy of a single party, there is none left over to serve as a check against the ruling class — A.M.Schlesinger b.1917 >
  < officials at the pinnacle of the mobilization hierarchyWall Street Journal >
  < the publisher who has … exceeded his proper function by becoming the head and dictator of the newspaper hierarchy — Alistair Cooke >
  < at the bottom of the hierarchy of managerial personnel are the foremen — Kurt Braun >
  < rising steadily in the hierarchy of the local Boy Scouts — Brendan Gill >
4.
 a. : the classification of a group of people with regard to ability or economic or social standing
  < the function of true criticism is to establish a definite hierarchy among the great artists of the past — C.W.Shumaker >
  < continuous waves of new immigrants, each pushing the preceding waves upward in the ethnic hierarchy — Richard Hofstadter >
  < the seating arrangement was an accurate index of the Hollywood hierarchy — Budd Schulberg >
 b. : a group of people so classified
  < made his way into the hierarchy of business families in Montreal — Hugh MacLennan >
 c. : the status attaching to such a group
  < the social hierarchy that may be associated with possessions — Ruth Benedict >
 specifically : a graded series of social statuses or class levels
  < upper and lower class hierarchy in a community >
5.
 a. : the arrangement of objects, elements, or values in a graduated series
  < the hierarchy of occupations is based on the degree of skill and responsibility they entail >
  < government officials determine the hierarchy of importance of affairs of state >
 b. : a series of objects, elements, or values so arranged
  < the Supreme Court is the head of a hierarchy of federal courts — Felix Frankfurter >
  < in the multicellular organism there is a hierarchy of levels — cells, tissues, organs — A.B.Novikoff >
 specifically logic : a series the members of which are grouped in accordance with a principle (as of importance, perfection or priority)
  < hierarchy of values >
  < an ontological hierarchy in which the objects of knowledge are arranged in an ascending order of reality — George Boas >
 c. : the stratification so achieved
  < a rigid hierarchy of clubs — R.M.Lovett >
 specifically : a table of statistical correlations having a constant proportional relationship and graded from high to low
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