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[ noun ] a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
Examples : "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values" Used in print (Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it , not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church - his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career - but for the one clear victory he had talked_about to the colonel . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
Synonyms Used in print (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)The return of the Catholic hierarchy in 1850 was looked_upon with indignant disapprobation and , in_fact , was charged with being a gesture of disloyalty . Related terms |
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