pecking order noun
plural pecking orders
plural pecking orders
Learner's 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（团体或组织中的）等级排序 -
As an assistant manager, he was pretty low in the company's pecking order.作为一名副经理，他在公司的地位相当低。
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the pecking order of Washington politics华盛顿政坛的等级排序