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noun (plural hierarchies). 1 A system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority: the initiative was with those lower down in the hierarchy [mass noun]: the trend is to get away from hierarchy and control.oun (plural hierarchies). 1 A system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority: the initiative was with those lower down in the hierarchy [mass noun]: the trend is to get away from hierarchy and control.
A hierarchy (from the Greek á¼±ÎµÏÎ±ÏÏÎ¯Î± hierarchia, rule of a high priest, from á¼±ÎµÏÎ¬ÏÏÎ·Ï hierarkhes, leader of sacred rites) is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) in which the items are represented as being above, below, or at the same level as one another. subsumptive containment hierarchy is a classification of objects from the general to the specific. Other names for this type of hierarchy are taxonomic hierarchy and  IS-A hierarchy. The last term describes the relationship between each levelâa lower-level object is a member of the higher class.