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: --
His findings do reveal an overwhelmingly farmbased rank and file in 1917-19, led by a somewhat less agricultural officer corps.
The rank and file had split three ways.
The rank and file of associations comprises the professional and middle classes so crucial to regime coalitions and survival.
In those studies more careful attention was to be paid to the composition, motivations, and the experience of the rank and file.
The rank and file participated in more policy changes, simply because there were more policy changes in the 1980s.
There are many anecdotes from the early period that demonstrate both fragmentation and rank and file politician power.
We get few indications of participant work, no extracts from notebooks from meetings or discussions with rank and file members.
This move was opposed by the rank and file.