hierarchy

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If he approves, it goes to his upper level manager, this hierarchy is already defined.

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  1. noun A body of persons having authority.
  2. noun Categorization of a group of people according to ability or status.
  3. noun The group so categorized.
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  • Her ranking in the hierarchy was as secure as could be. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 03 - September 1995
  • Doing otherwise undercuts the department hierarchy, which is determined by the council through promotions and the table of organization, the mayor said. —  Latest News
  • Is Ms. Kolpack one that the hierarchy is afraid of? —  National Catholic Reporter
  • Just drinking the delicious cherries that spawned from your hierarchy is a pleasing experience in itself. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • The fts_open () function returns a "handle" on a file hierarchy, which is then supplied to the other fts functions. —  SecuObs.com
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  1. Middle English ierarchie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin hierarchia, from Greek hierarkhiā, rule of a high priest, from hierarkhēs, high priest; see hierarch.

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  1. Early modern English yerarchy (Skelton), late Middle English gerarchie, etc., from Old French gerarchic, French hiérarchie = Provencal ierarchia, gerarchia = Spanish gerarquía = Portuguese jerarchia = Italian gerarchia, jerarchia = Dutch hierarchij = German hierarchie = Danish Swedish hierarki, from Middle Latin hierarchia, from Greek ἱεραρχία, the power or rule of a hierarch, from ἱεράρχης, hierarch: see hierarch.
 

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/ˈhaɪərɑrki/
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