An area reserved for taxi cabs to await customers. / (Britain) The system whereby barristers must accept a brief if they are the first available when one comes up.

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.

At an important, elevated, or exalted level in a hierarchy or organization; high-level.

Enlisted soldiers in a military organization, as would be arrayed in a grid pattern with ranks and files. / (idiomatic) Members of an organization who are not in leadership positions.

(idiomatic) To assert one's authority over a subordinate who disagrees.

Alternately arranged in two exactly opposite rows.

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

A member of the rank and file.

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