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Hierarchy vs Stratified - What's the difference?

hierarchy | stratified |

As a noun hierarchy

is a body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.

As an adjective stratified is

arranged in a sequence of layers or strata.

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.
  • stratified

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • arranged in a sequence of layers or strata
  • (of society) having a class structure
  • Antonyms

    *unstratified