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1 a position in which an organization is considered to be among the best of its type:
2 a situation in which the name of an organization's website appears at the top of a list when someone searches the internet for information:
The relative importance of each of these top-ranking issues was, however, distinctly downgraded relative to other issues between 1996 and 2000.
The higher values found at centers is probably the result of their top-ranking central-place functions.
Furthermore, the difference between a run-of-the-mill scientist and a top-ranking one often rests on the single factor of the development of the imagination based on broad general educational foundations.
He had a circle of devoted friends and was recognized as a top-ranking moralist and man of letters.
A fast shepherd or a strong labourer were as respected, one imagines, as any top-ranking colleague in a more modern employment.
They suffered the loss of three top-ranking amirs, and another 4000 dead.
In the first 20 years of its history, the school was only open to children of the country's top-ranking officers.
Today, he is a top-ranking violinist, noted for his clarity, rich tonal quality, and crispness, and has developed a distinct scholarly style of his own.
