hierarchy

In a sentence

Six example sentences with hierarchy, each labelled with its topic.

• The company flattened its hierarchy from nine levels to four, and half the job titles vanished in one afternoon.

  Business

• Biologists sort every organism into a hierarchy, from kingdom down to species, so a single name places it exactly.

  Science

• The guild runs a strict hierarchy: recruits, raiders, officers, and one leader who alone can spend the treasury.

  Gaming

• Maslow's hierarchy places food and safety at the bottom and self-fulfilment at the top, though later research questioned the strict order.

  Psychology

• The feudal hierarchy ran from king to lords to knights to peasants, and each rank owed service to the one above.

  History

• Files on the disk sit in a hierarchy of folders, so a photo's full name lists every folder above it.

  Technology

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains hierarchy. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

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• compensated
• activating
• innate
• institution
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• psychology
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• accumulated
• consuming
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• offset