ETYM Greek ierarchia: cf. French hiérarchie.
1. A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system.
2. The organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body; SYN. power structure, pecking order.
Structure consisting of different levels of authority in, for example, a business organization, one above the other. At the top of the hierarchy of a company, for example, is the chair and at the bottom is the shop-floor worker. Each worker in the hierarchy should have a job description that clearly sets out his or her duties and position within it. + prikaži više

1. The basic pattern of social organization within a flock of poultry in which each bird pecks another lower in the scale without fear of retaliation and submits to pecking by one of higher rank; broadly; a dominance hierarchy in a group of social animals
2. A social hierarchy