rank : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the rank of a flag officer
  

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• adjective satellite at an elevated level in rank or importance
  upper-level; high-level.
  
  • a high-level official
  • a high-level corporate briefing
  • upper-level management

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• noun higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service
  seniority; senior status; higher status.
  

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• adjective satellite having a higher rank
  ranking; superior.
  
  • superior officer

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• noun an insignia worn on a military uniform
  

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• noun a nonparametric measure of partial correlation
  

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• noun a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings
  Kendall's tau; tau coefficient of correlation.
  

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• noun the state of being inferior
  lower status; inferiority.
  

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• adjective satellite inferior in rank or status
  petty; junior-grade; lowly; subaltern; secondary.
  
  • the junior faculty
  • a lowly corporal
  • petty officialdom
  • a subordinate functionary

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• noun rank in a military organization
  rating; paygrade; military rating.
  

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• to insist on one's own prerogative or plan of action, by right of a higher rank than that of one suggesting a different plan

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• noun the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
  rank.
  
  • the strike was supported by the union rank and file
  • he rose from the ranks to become a colonel
• noun people who constitute the main body of any group
  

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• . (a) (Mil.) The whole body of common soldiers, including also corporals. In a more extended sense, it includes sergeants also, excepting the noncommissioned staff. analogously, the lowest ranking members of any organization (b) See under 1st File.

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• (Law), an excessive and unreasonable modus. See Modus, 3.

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• noun an arrangement according to rank
  

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• noun the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables
  rank-difference correlation; rank-difference correlation coefficient; rank-order correlation.
  

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• noun the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables
  rank-difference correlation; rank-difference correlation coefficient; rank-order correlation.
  

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• noun the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables
  rank-difference correlation; rank-difference correlation coefficient; rank-order correlation.
  

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• noun the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables
  rank-difference correlation; rank-difference correlation coefficient; rank-order correlation.
  

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• adjective satellite having an offensive rancid odor
  

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• (Mil.), the rank or line of a body of troops which is in the rear, or last in order.

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• noun position in a social hierarchy
  rank; social station; social status.
  
  • the British are more aware of social status than Americans are

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• noun a place where taxis park while awaiting customers
  taxistand; cabstand.
  
  • in England the place where taxis wait to be hired is called a `taxi rank'

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• the order or grade of common soldiers; as, to reduce a noncommissioned officer to the ranks.

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• to supply the whole number, or a competent number.

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• to set so as to take off a thick shaving. Moxon.

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• to have precedence over, or to have the right of taking a higher place than.

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Two"-ranked` adjective

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1. (Bot.) Alternately disposed on exactly opposite sides of the stem so as to from two ranks; distichous.

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