hierarchy
The Mafia has tight hierarchical structures.
German research universities are rigidly hierarchical.
The old, top-down hierarchical model of management is giving way to the pressure of innovation.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Classifying and creating order
alphabetize
anti-hierarchical
arrange
arrangement
arranger
concordance
describe
macrocosm
misclassification
misclassify
miscode
mislabel
misorder
pigeonhole
short-list
shortlist
sort
sort something out
spring-clean
unstructured

hierarchical | American Dictionary

hierarchical
adjective
us/ˌhɑɪ·əˌrɑr·kɪ·kəl/
arranged in an order from the most to the least important

hierarchical | Business English

hierarchical
adjective
uk /ˌhaɪəˈrɑːkɪkəl/us
arranged in a hierarchy:
Seven hierarchical layers is more than enough for all but the largest corporations.
a hierarchical structure/system/relationship

hierarchically

adverb
Each department is hierarchically organized.

Examples of hierarchical

hierarchical
Qualitative researchers have also recognized the problem of hierarchical, nested levels of context, even if they have not expressed the problem in those terms.
This operation takes a minimal tree as input and returns the mirror image of that tree as output, preserving hierarchical relations.
As a result these packages lack features such as modular design and hierarchical analysis specific to robot systems.
The relation between the word and the foot is thus no longer a hierarchical matter.
Subsequently, we performed a hierarchical logistic regression analysis to identify significant predictors of case status.
Nevertheless, the cricket-fighting culture exists as it does precisely because of the existence of such hierarchical differences in perception.
Hierarchical relations between the linkable objects are also defined.
The hierarchical nature of the corps, however, produced the same problem that early efforts at debating had done.
What organizes these diverse traditions and theories into a coherent outlook is the hierarchical relationship between human knowledge and divinely revealed knowledge.
More specifically, the aspectual properties of the verb are determined by the hierarchical configuration in which subject and verb appear with respect to each other.
Following the correlational analyses, relative associations between the domains of meaning and psychological distress levels were explored using hierarchical multiple regression analyses.
It is a bond, but an extremely hierarchical bond, and by no means equalizes the differences between men as it is supposed to do.
By descending the hierarchical tree, we find that there are seventeen leaf nodes in the taxonomy.
As can be seen, this view shows the hierarchical structure of the discourse by displaying the summary for each block, indented appropriately.
This approach has the potential to eliminate from archaeological enquiry topics of struggle and conflict within inherently unequal hierarchical structures.
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