RANK
Definition:
- [noun] a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another; "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen"
- [noun] relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"
- [noun] the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army); "the strike was supported by the union rank and file"; "he rose from the ranks to become a colonel"
Synonyms: and file
- [noun] position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are"
Synonyms: social station, social status, social
- [noun] the body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed"
Synonyms: membership
- [verb] take or have a position relative to others; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World"
- [verb] assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
Synonyms: rate, range, order, grade, place
- [verb] take precedence or surpass others in rank
Synonyms: out
- [adjective] very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth"
- [adjective] very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar"
- [adjective] conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross
- [adjective] complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"
Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer
- [adjective] growing profusely; "rank jungle vegetation"
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Related Words:
- place, come in, come out
- come
- superordinate
- shortlist
- seed
- reorder
- subordinate
- prioritize, prioritise
- sequence
- downgrade
- upgrade
- first, number one
- second
- third
- fourth
- fifth
- sixth
- seventh
- eighth
- ninth
- tenth
- eleventh
- twelfth
- thirteenth
- fourteenth
- fifteenth
- sixteenth
- seventeenth
- eighteenth
- nineteenth
- twentieth
- thirtieth
- fortieth
- fiftieth
- sixtieth
- seventieth
- eightieth
- ninetieth
- hundredth
- thousandth
- millionth
- billionth
- last
- grade, level, tier
- gradation, step
- second class
- military rank, military rating, paygrade, rating
- archidiaconate
- baronetcy, barony
- dukedom
- earldom
- kingship
- princedom
- viscountcy, viscounty
- place, station
- quality
