heterarchy

Meanings

1. The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
2. An example of this government.
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.

Etymology

From heter- (“other, different”) + -archy (“rule”).; equivalent to Katharevousa ἑτεραρχία (eterarchía) / Dimotiki ετεραρχία (eterarchía).