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0 an informal social system in which some people or groups know they are more or less important than others:
There's a clearly established pecking order in this office.
He started as a clerk but gradually rose in the pecking order.
1 the order of importance of people in a group:
The teachers are so low in the social and economic pecking order that nobody listens to them.
2 the level of importance of people in a social group, at work, etc:
further/lower down the pecking order Employees are lower down the pecking order in private equity than shareholders.
at the bottom/top of the pecking order As one of many creditors, Mr Dixon is at the bottom of the pecking order.
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