Belonging or pertaining to the rank and file.

(military) To close the spacing between lines (ranks) of troops, as they are deployed across a battlefield, thereby decreasing the depth of the formation as it faces the enemy side.

simple past tense and past participle of de-rank

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of de-rank

(mathematics) The number of independent cycles in a graph

(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.

plural of taxi rank

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

Alternately arranged in two exactly opposite rows.

plural of circuit rank