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PECKING ORDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
Synonyms:
hierarchy; pecking order; power structure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("pecking order" is a kind of...):
organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)
Meronyms (members of "pecking order"):
hierarch (a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy)
Holonyms ("pecking order" is a part of...):
administration; brass; establishment; governance; governing body; organisation; organization (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)
