A specified position in a numbered series.

(nautical, Royal Navy) The rank of a flag officer. / Any of several equivalent ranks in several other naval or other military organizations.

(informal, business) A model of employee productivity in which workers are ranked into the top 20 percent, the adequate 70 percent, or the bottom 10 percent, and those in the bottom group are fired.

(military, chiefly in the plural) A soldier who is not a commissioned officer.

A member of the rank and file.

A grade conferred upon officers in armed forces, police and intelligence agencies, typically denoted by particular insignia affixed to their uniforms.

(mathematics) The number of independent cycles in a graph

Alternative form of derank

One who is not expected to succeed or win, especially one who is unknown.

plural of rank-and-filer