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hierarchy

/ˈhaɪɚˌɑɹki/

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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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What does hierarchy mean?

noun

  1. A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
  2. 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.
  3. 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?
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444
The good fame of these several orders of the supernatural hierarchy also commonly requires a certain tribute of vicarious consumption and vicarious leisure.
Thorstein VeblenThe Theory of the Leisure ClassProject Gutenberg ebook #833
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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.
Leo, graf TolstoyWar and PeaceTranslated by Aylmer Maude; Louise MaudeProject Gutenberg ebook #2600
The first, third, and fourth divisions are administered by divisional Residents, which three officers rank next to the Rajah in the official hierarchy.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
We cannot help remarking the uniform efforts for the cultivation of the soil which are manifested in the policy of the monastic hierarchy.
Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé BonplandPersonal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1Translated by Thomasina RossProject Gutenberg ebook #6322