| 词汇 | pecking-order |
| 释义 | pecking order noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˈpek.ɪŋ ˌɔː.dər/ us /ˈpek.ɪŋ ˌɔːr.dɚ/ an informal social system in which some people or groups know they are more or less important than others: 等级排序 There's a clearly established pecking order in this office.这个办公室有明显的等级排序。 He started as a clerk but gradually rose in the pecking order.他刚开始是个职员，但慢慢地地位升高了。 Compare power structure hierarchy See also ordernoun(ARRANGEMENT) Classifying and creating order alphabetize anti-hierarchical arrange arrangement arranger concordance describe macrocosm miscatalogue misclassification misclassify miscode mislabel pigeonhole short-list shortlist sort sort something out spring-clean unstructured pecking order | American Dictionarypecking order noun[ Cusually sing ] infmlus/ˈpek·ɪŋ ˌɔr·dər/ the order of importance of people in a group: The teachers are so low in the social and economic pecking order that nobody listens to them. pecking order | Business Englishpecking order noun[ C,usually singular ] HR informalukus the level of importance of people in a social group, at work, etc: further/lower down the pecking orderEmployees are lower down the pecking order in private equity than shareholders. at the bottom/top of the pecking orderAs one of many creditors, Mr Dixon is at the bottom of the pecking order. Examples of pecking orderpecking order He claimed that it was the central factor that determined the international peckingorder. It also confirmed the new peckingorder within the revolutionary alliance. An example of this is when all of the comparisons are consistent with a fixed peckingorder. To the cognoscenti of cyberspace, there is a strict peckingorder, all plainly visible in the alphabet soup of letters and punctuation. For them there is a peckingorder in terms of materials from those that are decent and novel to those that are secondary and poor. The peckingorder of free radicals and antioxidants: lipid peroxidation, a-tocopherol and ascorbate. It is a type of music, not a quality of music (or 'quality' music) in terms of which all others musics are judged inferior on the inevitable aesthetic peckingorder. That is, a peckingorder exists that sets the agenda and ultimately determines the direction the guideline is going. Such a reality is like the peckingorder among chickens. The peckingorder fixed at certain levels years ago should not remain immutable forever. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was given leave to speak rather late in the peckingorder. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What we would like to get rid of is the peckingorder: universities top, polys next; other major institutions third, minor colleges fourth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There may 12, 16 or even 20 partners, but there will always be a peckingorder and inequality among the partners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Where would the matron stand in the peckingorder, with the proliferation of general managers now being appointed in every hospital throughout the country? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You are not near the top of the peckingorder when seen from the centre. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of pecking order These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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