pecking order
The natural ranking of social status and dominance occurring in a group of birdsThe natural ranking of social status and dominance occurring in a group of birds.
Meaning
2 sensesThe natural ranking of social status and dominance occurring in a group of birds.
(broadly, figuratively)The usually informal hierarchy of authority, command, or social status, as determined by the especially natural propensity for domination of different members of a specific group over each other, such as older brothers and sisters over their younger siblings.
Hackordnung, Hackabstand
неофициа́льная иера́рхияneoficiálʹnaja ijerárxija, сложи́вшийся поря́док подчине́нияsložívšijsja porjádok podčinénija, поря́док клева́нияporjádok klevánija
- the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
Translations
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Origin
Calque of German Hackordnung.Calque of German Hackordnung.
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Forms
plural: pecking orders| Singular | pecking order |
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regular
Synonyms
2 synonyms- the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body:hierarchypower structure