0 the ordinary workers in a company or the ordinary members of an organization, and not the leaders:
1 soldiers who are not officers, or the members of an organization who are not part of the leadership
2 the ordinary members of an organization who do not have senior positions:
But the book's big weakness is its failure to engage with the ideas and attitudes of the rank and file.
Central leadership controls the rank and file politicians through this hierarchical channel.
The successful reordering at the national level, however, ran into difficulties with the rank and file of the national organizations during implementation.
We argue that it was not so much greater rank and file politician power, but quite the opposite.
This new development significantly narrowed the age differential between the leadership of these movements and the rank and file.
Such a viewpoint united many rank and file union members with the medical lobby.
The concerns of these men were not, however, the concerns of the rank and file.
This move was opposed by the rank and file.
