HOW TO PRONOUNCE
hierarchy
/ˈhaɪɚˌɑɹki/
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The first syllable has the strongest beat.
Stress HIGH. The ch sounds like k; the middle can be fuller or reduced.
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“A clear hierarchy of roles.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does hierarchy mean?
noun
- A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
- A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.
- Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈhaɪɚˌɑɹki/
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What, then, prevented charity, union, sacrifice from maintaining themselves in the hierarchy, when the hierarchy might have been only a condition of labor?
The good fame of these several orders of the supernatural hierarchy also commonly requires a certain tribute of vicarious consumption and vicarious leisure.
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Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free.
The first, third, and fourth divisions are administered by divisional Residents, which three officers rank next to the Rajah in the official hierarchy.
We cannot help remarking the uniform efforts for the cultivation of the soil which are manifested in the policy of the monastic hierarchy.