1 to have greater importance than someone or something, or to have a higher rank than someone:
She outranks the other officers involved in the investigation.
Considering these thresholds, all land-use types were outranked.
The constraint militating against epenthesis outranks the constraint motivating consonant spreading.
Assuming that inputs may minimally differ with respect to functional features, optionality occurs whenever feature-sensitive faithfulness constraints outrank the respective markedness constraints.
Infixation is argued to occur when prosodic constraints outrank morphological constraints.
Morpheme-subcategorisation constraints may also outrank the tonehead constraints, resulting in low-toned heads.
The other crucial ranking is that stress-placement constraints must outrank the tone-placement constraints.
However, it appears that, within the set of constraints that have scope over segments only, markedness restrictions on feature co-occurrence always outrank other types.
A constraint is inviolable if and only if it outranks all conflicting constraints.
