Hierarchy

['haɪərɑːkɪ] or ['haɪərɑrki]

(noun.) the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body.

(noun.) a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; 'put honesty first in her hierarchy of values'.

Checker: Otis--From WordNet

(n.) Dominion or authority in sacred things.

(n.) A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.

(n.) A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.

(n.) A rank or order of holy beings.

Editor: Verna

n. Ecclesiastical government, ecclesiastical establishment.

Checker: Rudolph

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