0 a position in an organization, such as the army, showing the importance of the person having it:
He joined the company in 2008 and has been rising through the ranks ever since.
The party leadership seems to be losing support in the ranks.
Marty has joined the ranks of the (= become) unemployed.
Consumer preferences were placed in rank order from 1 to 5.
He's in the front/first rank of (= one of the best) international tennis players.
Having a large income is one of the advantages of rank (= high position).
Ministers of cabinet rank receive a higher salary than other ministers.
1 a row, especially of people or things standing side by side:
2 (especially of something bad) complete or extreme:
3 used to describe plants that grow too fast or too thickly, or an area covered by these:
4 smelling strong and unpleasant:
5 to have a position higher or lower than others, or to be considered to have such a position:
In surveys, it also ranks fourth or fifth among the so-called "core" journals in all of economics.
When ranked high enough, these determine that a syllable which has more than one mora must be stressed.
They ranked the top 20 terms chosen from the relevant documents and added the top n terms.
Eighteen bilinguals with ranks at the middle of the range were designated balanced.
A closely related proposal, to which we will not give separate attention, is that the two types of interests are not lexically ranked but incommensurable.
Could one overcome the threat to the interest theory by arguing that interests are ranked only by their contribution to further interests?
By the end of the century, however, a few women had managed to break the ranks of male professionalism and attain medical degrees.
In the years circa 1400 its ranks included a number of leading musicians.
