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Pecking order

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Noun
  1. 1
    The natural ranking of social status and dominance occurring in a group of birds.
  2. 2
    the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body wordnet
  3. 3
    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. broadly, figuratively

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Calque of German Hackordnung.

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