ADJECTIVE
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classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers
it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art
in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first
How To Use hierarchic In A Sentence
- Workers in hierarchical workplaces cannot reasonably be expected to identify themselves if their opinions might touch upon their workplaces -- that's a disciplinary issue for most workers & most employers. Who Are You People? « PubliCola
- As in any hierarchical system, each functional level builds on the one below it.
- It must be confessed, however, that certain influences darkened the style even before it had reached maturity; chief among these was a gloomy hierarchical splendour, and a ritual rigidity, which to-day we yet refer to, quite properly, as Byzantinism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
- My previous experience of polyamory was hierarchical: the primary relationship; the secondary relationship; the one-offs. Times, Sunday Times
- For example, Muslim scholars, or ulama, were hierarchically organized and sanctioned by the state, and Ottoman sultans often issued decrees with the force of law.
- Is social media a peculiarly female phenomenon as it is uncontrolled + unhierarchical? euan semple @womenintech soc media event # SQHQ» Blog Archive » Twitter Digest for 2010-03-15
- Rather than fixing a position on a hierarchical socio-economic ladder, consumerism establishes lateral connections that affirm middle-class affiliation.
- It became even more individualistic and displayed few signs of the closely knit and hierarchically organized structure of the previous era.
- Those inevitably require hierarchical authority to implement and tend to be mechanistic.
- There are some certain connections between the origin of inadequate phenomena and the hierarchically administrative structure.