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Definition: Lower-ranking |
Lower-rankingAdjective1. Inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Lower-rankingSynonyms: inferior (adj), junior-grade (adj), lower (adj), lowly (adj), petty(a) (adj), secondary (adj), subaltern (adj), subordinate (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: lower-ranking creditor (law). |
Crosswords: Lower-ranking |
| Specialty definitions using "lower-ranking": chargé, chargé d'affaires. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Kazakhstan | Lower-ranking prosecutors may approve interim extensions of detention. (references) |
Minorities | Macedonia | Ethnic minorities all complained that they were disproportionately assigned to lower-ranking positions. (references) |
Women | Bulgaria | Statistics show that women are equally likely to attend universities, but they have less opportunity to upgrade their qualifications and generally end up in lower-ranking and lower-paying positions than their male counterparts. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Lower-ranking" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lower-ranking" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (comparative) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "lower-ranking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 低等第. (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 御家人 (a lower-ranking vassal in the Kamakura and Edo periods). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | "けに" (a lower-ranking vassal in the Kamakura and Edo periods). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 낮 순위. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ower-rankinglay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-k-l-n-n-o-r-r-w" | |
-3 letters: knowinger, narrowing, reloaning, reworking. | |
-4 letters: arrowing, geraniol, gnarlier, growlier, ironware, learning, lowering, nonglare, orangier, rankling, regional, rewaking, roweling, wakening, weakling, weanling, wrangler, wreaking. | |
-5 letters: aginner, aileron, airglow, alienor, aligner, aneling, angrier, ankling, eanling, earning, earring, einkorn, engrail, engrain, erlking, gawkier, glarier, grainer, grannie, grinner, groaner, growler, ignorer, ingrown, kaoline, kerning, knowing, lankier, larkier. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 6F 77 65 72 2D 72 61 6E 6B 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010 00101101 01110010 01100001 01101110 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L o w e r - r a n k i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 006F 0077 0065 0072 002D 0072 0061 006E 006B 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46818971841584678077758073 |
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