• an informal social system in which some people or groups know they are more or less important than others:


    Pecking orders meaning & definition 1 of Pecking orders.


  • the order of importance of people in a group:

    Pecking orders meaning & definition 2 of Pecking orders.


  • 1 : the basic pattern of social organization within a flock of poultry in which each bird pecks another lower in the scale without fear of retaliation and submits to pecking by one of higher rank broadly : a dominance hierarchy in a group of social animals. 2 : a social hierarchy.

    Pecking orders meaning & definition 3 of Pecking orders.

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