Thesaurus results for PECKING ORDER

pecking order

noun

variants also peck order

as in hierarchy

the way in which people or things in a group or organization are placed in a series of levels with different importance or status As an assistant manager, he was pretty low in the company's pecking order.

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Recent Examples on the Web There’s a pecking order to carrying the Cup in hockey. —

Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 1 July 2024 All three were supremely talented and held the prime spots in the end-of-the-runway positioning pecking order for many years. —

Ivan Shaw, Vogue, 18 June 2024 Here’s how: Understand the pecking order in that family. —

Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 8 June 2024 Few other companies have embodied the new corporate hierarchy pecking order ushered in by the proliferation of AI quite like Nvidia has. —

Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for pecking order

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