"higher-order" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "higher + order",
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        "Involving more sophisticated thinking or reasoning."
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          "ref": "2021, Trevor George Gardner, “By Any Means: A Philosophical Frame for Rulemaking Reform in Criminal Law”, in Yale Law Journal Forum, page 819",
          "text": "It is at least plausible that expert-level crime policy rulemaking (in the interest of reform) may be necessary in a system... [which] will thus remain susceptible to the prospect of punitive populism arising within any one of an array of higher-order bounded publics.",
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        "Of or relating to a class higher up in a hierarchy."
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          "higher up",
          "high up"
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          "hierarchy",
          "hierarchy"
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