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Echelon vs Hierarchy - What's the difference?

echelon | hierarchy |

As nouns the difference between echelon and hierarchy

is that echelon is a level or rank in an organization, profession, or society while hierarchy is a body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.

As a verb echelon

is to form troops into an echelon.

As a proper noun Echelon

is an international SIGINT network to monitor and gather intelligence from satellite trunk communications.

echelon

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.
  • (military) A formation of troops, ships, etc. in diagonal parallel rows.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form troops into an echelon.

    • See also

    * (Echelon formation)

    Anagrams

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    hierarchy

    English

    Noun

    (hierarchies)
  • A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy : at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}
  • Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.

    • Related terms

    * hierarch * hierarchic * hierarchical * hierarchically