pecking order
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pecking order
noun
plural
pecking orders
pecking order
noun
plural
pecking orders
Britannica Dictionary definition of PECKING ORDER
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the way in which people or things in a group or organization are placed in a series of levels with different importance or status
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As an assistant manager, he was pretty low in the company's pecking order.
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the pecking order of Washington politics
