POWER STRUCTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does power structure mean? 

• POWER STRUCTURE (noun)
  The noun POWER STRUCTURE has 1 sense:

1. the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body

  Familiarity information: POWER STRUCTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POWER STRUCTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

hierarchy; pecking order; power structure

Hypernyms ("power structure" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

Meronyms (members of "power structure"):

hierarch (a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy)

Holonyms ("power structure" is a part of...):

administration; brass; establishment; governance; governing body; organisation; organization (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)