Meaning of heterarchy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
   uncountable
2. An example of this government.
   countable
3. A system of organization where the elements of the organization are unranked (non-hierarchical) or where they possess the potential to be ranked a number of different ways.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Despite installing puppet governments in the marches, the subjects of the empire’s conquered territories were still very conscious of living under heterarchy.”

“The proposed liberation of our largely undeveloped economy goes too far — the resulting foreign dominance of our markets would make us a heterarchy.”

“When a group operates as a heterarchy, everyone is a leader in their own domain.”

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