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hierarchy

noun
 OPAL W
🔊/ˈhaɪərɑːki/
🔊/ˈhaɪərɑːrki/
(plural hierarchies)
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  1.  
    [countable, uncountable] a system, especially in a society or an organization, in which people are organized into different levels of importance from highest to lowest等级制度（尤指社会或组织）
    • the social/political hierarchy社会／政治等级制度
    • She's quite high up in the management hierarchy.她位居管理层要职。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • He joined the party in 1966 and quickly moved up the hierarchy.他 1966 年加入这个政党，很快就升到高层。
    • She is above me in the hierarchy.她的级别比我高。
    • There was a clear hierarchy of power in the company.公司内部权力等级分明。
    • At the bottom of the corporate hierarchy are part-time low-paid workers.低薪兼职员工处于公司的最底层。
    • In most large families there is a hierarchy of age, with the older siblings having more status.在大多数大家庭中，年龄是分级的，年龄较大的兄弟姐妹的地位更高。
    • Why does there need to be such a strict hierarchy within the church?为什么教会中需要如此严格的等级制度？
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • complex
    • rigid
    • strict
    • …
    verb + hierarchy
    • create
    • develop
    • establish
    • …
    hierarchy + verb
    • be based on something
    preposition
    • in a/​the hierarchy
    • within a/​the hierarchy
    • hierarchy of
    • …
    phrases
    • somebody’s level, position, status, etc. in a hierarchy
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  2. [countable + singular or plural verb] the group of people in control of a large organization or institution统治集团
    • It was on orders from the party hierarchy that she dropped the investigation.她是在党的等级制下令放弃调查的。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • complex
    • rigid
    • strict
    • …
    verb + hierarchy
    • create
    • develop
    • establish
    • …
    hierarchy + verb
    • be based on something
    preposition
    • in a/​the hierarchy
    • within a/​the hierarchy
    • hierarchy of
    • …
    phrases
    • somebody’s level, position, status, etc. in a hierarchy
    See full entry
  3. [countable] (formal) a system that ideas or beliefs can be arranged into according to their importance层次体系
    • a hierarchy of needs不同层次的需要
    4. Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Greek hierarkhia, from hierarkhēs ‘sacred ruler’, from hieros ‘sacred’ + arkhēs ‘ruler’. The earliest sense was ‘system of orders of angels and heavenly beings’; the other senses date from the 17th cent.