rank (1) — OAT

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noun

1 he was promoted to the rank of Captain:

position, grade, level, echelon, gradation, point on the scale, rung on the ladder;

class, stratum, status, station, standing.

2 she must come from a family of rank:

high standing, nobility, aristocracy, blue blood, high birth, eminence, distinction, prestige;

prominence, influence, importance, consequence, power.

3 the first rank of riflemen was instructed to lie down:

row, line, file, column, series, succession, string, train, procession;

British queue.

□ the rank and file

1 both the officers and the rank and file:

other ranks, soldiers and NCOs, lower ranks;

common/ordinary/private soldiers, soldiers, men, troops.

2 the rank and file of the organization:

ordinary members;

grass roots.

3 a speech redolent with phrases designed to warm the hearts of the rank and file:

the people, the proletariat, the common people, the masses, the populace, the multitude, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians, the crowd;

derogatory the hoi polloi, the common herd, the rabble, the mob, the riffraff, the canaille, the great unwashed, the ragtag (and bobtail), the proles, the plebs.

verb

1 the plant is ranked as endangered:

classify, class, categorize, rate, grade, type, order, sort, bracket, group, pigeonhole, designate;

codify, catalog, file, list, tabulate;

Medicine triage.

2 Swainson felt that an illustrator ranked below a real man of science:

have a rank, be graded, be placed, be positioned, have a status, be classed, be classified, be categorized;

belong.

3 rows of tulips were ranked like guardsmen:

line up, align, draw up, put/set in order, order, place, position, arrange, dispose, set out, array, range.