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Definition: Meaning of, rank in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / raŋk /

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rank ranks
  1. position in army/organization [uncountable and countable] the position or level that someone holds in an organization, especially in the police or the army, navy etc
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  2. the ranks the people who belong to a particular organization or group
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  3. the ranks all the members of the army, navy etc who are not officers
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  4. break ranks to behave in a way which is different from other members of a group, especially when they expect your support
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  5. line [countable] a rank of people or things is a line or row of them
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  6. pull rank (on somebody) informal to use your authority over someone to make them do what you want, especially unfairly
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  7. quality [singular] the degree to which something or someone is of high quality
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  8. social class [uncountable and countable] someone's position in society
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  9. taxi [countable] also taxi rank a place where taxis wait in a line to be hired
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
rank ranked ranked
Present Participle Third Person Singular
ranking ranks
  1. [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, not in progressive] to have a particular position in a list of people or things that have been put in order of quality or importance
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  2. [transitive] to decide the position of someone or something on a list based on quality or importance
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  3. [transitive] American English to have a higher rank than someone else [=  outrank]
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  4. [transitive] to arrange objects in a line or row
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rank ranker rankest
  1. if something is rank, it has a very strong unpleasant smell
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  2. [only before noun] used to emphasize a bad or undesirable quality [=  total]
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  3. rank plants are too thick and have spread everywhere
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rank used in phrases

  • Kendall partial rank correlation (noun)
    1. statistics a nonparametric measure of partial correlation
  • Kendall rank correlation (noun)
    1. statistics a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings
  • cab rank (noun)
    1. British English a place where taxis wait for customers [=  cabstand American English]
  • flag rank (noun)
    1. military the rank of a flag officer
  • higher rank (noun)
    1. higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service
  • insignia of rank (noun)
    1. military an insignia worn on a military uniform
  • lower rank (noun)
    1. the state of being inferior
  • military rank (noun)
    1. military rank in a military organization
  • rank and file (noun)
    1. the rank and file the ordinary members of an organization rather than the leaders
  • rank order (noun)
    1. an arrangement according to rank
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