Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An enlisted soldier.
  • noun A commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A man in the ranks.
  • noun One who ranks or arranges; one who disposes in ranks.
  • noun A military officer who has risen or been promoted from the ranks.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective comparative form of rank: more rank
  • noun One who ranks things, or arranges them in ranks.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status
  • noun an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces

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Examples

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  • Scrap the one rankers, and put every three ranker on the line.

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  • Each school has to respect the system, but the system itself is always being tinkered with, each ranker is constantly making changes (as you note), and neither can deviate too far away from a system that at least makes some sense.

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  • -- Quora uses votes from people you know -- or at least whose identity you can explore by viewing their linked Facebook profile -- to create a sense of affinity between the reader and the ranker.

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  • Rank smells – the ranker the better – would drive our dog, Zaphod, nuts.

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  • -- Quora uses votes from people you know -- or at least whose identity you can explore by viewing their linked Facebook profile -- to create a sense of affinity between the reader and the ranker.

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