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the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
the strike was supported by the union rank and file
he rose from the ranks to become a colonel - people who constitute the main body of any group
How To Use rank and file In A Sentence
- The cuts are a heavy blow for the army 's rank and file. Times, Sunday Times
- Now in a place so small as Jerusalem, what we call the rank and file really counts. The New Jerusalem
- The air in the building was dark and brown, like the air the rank and file breathed down under the ground.
- The party's rank and file are beginning to question the prime minister's choice of advisers.
- Nevertheless, it has helped add a bit more spice to the recent upsurge of rank and file militancy which has managed to send the mainstream press into such a lather.
- There was widespread support for him among the rank and file.
- American politics is turning right because Democratic leaders tried to govern from the hard ideological left, even over the objections of their own rank and file and the larger public. ObamaCare and the Election
- The political vacuum could be filled as early as Wednesday but leaders are prepared for much longer discussions if the rank and file throw out their recommendations.
- It is down, straight down, into the rank and file, and there is nothing to break the fall.
- When Mr. ElBaradei returned to Egypt in February 2010 to lead an alliance of opposition groups, many of them youth-driven, the Muslim Brotherhood backed him, formalizing a partnership that had already gelled among the rank and file. 'Brothers' in Egypt Present Two Faces