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📖 Определения и значения для слова rank

📒 the position, especially a high position, that somebody has in a particular organization, society, etc.

  • She was not used to mixing with people of high social rank.
  • He rose through the ranks to become managing director.
  • Within months she was elevated to ministerial rank.

📒 the position that somebody has in the army, navy, police, etc.

  • rank of something He was soon promoted to the rank of captain.
  • He rose steadily through the ranks and retired as a lieutenant-colonel.
  • officers of junior/senior rank

📒 the position of ordinary soldiers rather than officers; the army

  • He served in the ranks for most of the war.
  • He rose from the ranks (= from being an ordinary soldier) to become a warrant officer.
  • a campaign to attract more women into the military ranks

📒 the degree to which somebody/something is of high quality

  • a painter of the first rank
  • Britain is no longer in the front rank of world powers.
  • The findings are arranged in rank order according to performance.

📒 the members of a particular group or organization

  • We have a number of international players in our ranks.
  • At 50, he was forced to join the ranks of the unemployed.
  • There were serious divisions within the party's own ranks.

📒 a line or row of soldiers, police, etc. standing next to each other

  • They watched as ranks of marching infantry passed the window.
  • They fired at random into the enemy ranks.
  • The president moved slowly along the ranks of men.

📒 a line or row of people or things

  • massed ranks of spectators
  • The trees grew in serried ranks (= very closely together).
  • Rank upon rank of caravans filled the field.

📒 a number that gives the position of a member of a set of numbers

📒 to fail to remain in line

  • The police broke ranks and started hitting people with their batons.

📒 to refuse to support the group or the organization of which they are members

  • Large numbers of MPs felt compelled to break ranks over the issue.
  • He broke ranks with his fellow Republicans and opposed the war.

📒 if a group of people close ranks, they work closely together to defend themselves, especially when they are being criticized

  • It's not unusual for the police to close ranks when one of their officers is being investigated.

📒 if soldiers close ranks, they move closer together in order to defend themselves

📒 to make use of your place or status in society or at work to make somebody do what you want

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