hierarchy

/หˆhaษช.ษ™.ษนษ‘ห(ษน).ki/

IPA: /HH AY1 ER0 AA0 R K IY0/

noun
  1. 1

    A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.

  2. 2

    A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.

  3. 3

    Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hierarchy