Rank And File

Definition: Rank And File

Rank And File

Noun

1. 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".

2. People who constitute the main body of any group.

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Literature

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Synonym: Rank And File

Combatant

Infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier; Tommy Atkins, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder; officer; (commander); subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman; spear bearer; halberdier, lancer; musketeer, carabineer, rifleman, jager, sharpshooter, yager, skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer; archer, bowman.

Commonalty

Noun: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne; the many, the general,the crowd, the people, the populace, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed; man in the street.

Continuity

Procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array.

Crosswords: Rank And File

Books

• American City: A Rank and File History (American Labor Series, No 2) (reference)

• Rank and File (reference)

• The New Rank and File (reference)

  (more book examples)

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Civil Liberties

Dominican Republic

The process of rounding up illegal Haitians is performed by the rank and file of the armed forces and migration officers. (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

Collective bargaining agreements negotiated in the past few years have, by and large, been accepted by the rank and file without much protest, despite only moderate wage rises, and days lost to strikes are relatively low. (references)

Political Economy

Trinidad

The rank and file do not widely support radical opposition to government policies. (references)

Worker Rights

Azerbaijan

It continues to operate without a vote of its rank and file workers. (references)

Guatemala

Various union leaders and rank and file members were pushed and beaten. (references)

Guatemala

During the incident, about 20 rank and file union members were held captive. (references)

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Albanian

ushtarët (soldiery), njerëzit e thjeshtë (rank). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جنود الصف, ‏العمال, ‏الشعب (people). (various references)

Bulgarian 

редниците и ефрейторите. (various references)

Czech

mužstvo (crew, team). (various references)

Danish

arbejder (hand, laborer, labourer, operative, worker, working man, workman). (various references)

Dutch

vakbondsbasis. (various references)

French

masse, hommes de troupe, base d'un syndicat. (various references)

German

Basis einer Gewerkschaft. (various references)

Greek 

απλοί στρατιώτες (the rank and file). (various references)

Hebrew 

עמך (common folk, ordinary people), �"מון �"עם (populace). (various references)

Hungarian

legénységi állomány (men, ranks), közkatonák (common soldiery, ranks), tagok (ranks), népség-katonaság (ranks), legénység (company, crew, crew of the lower deck, men, ranks, team), köznép (common people, Commons, populace, ranks), egyszerű tagok (ranks), egyszerű emberek (common people, ranks, small people). (various references)

Italian

base del sindacato, base del partito. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

草の� � (grassroots, the roots of grass), 雑兵　 (ordinary soldiers, small fry), 雑兵 (ordinary soldiers, small fry), 末輩 (underling), 兵�' (private, ranks, soldier), �'伍 (the ranks). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぞうひょう (ordinary soldiers, small fry), くさのね (grassroots, the roots of grass), そつ�" (the ranks), まっぱい (underling), へいそつ (private, ranks, soldier). (various references)

Manx

sidooryn cadjin. (various references)

Pig Latin

ankray anday ilefay.(various references)

Portuguese

recrutas, soldados rasos, operários. (various references)

Russian 

рядовой состав. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obični službenici, biti običan službenik. (various references)

Spanish

tropa (troop), la masa del pueblo, base de un sindicato. (various references)

Swedish

manskap (crew, men, ratings, troop). (various references)

Turkish

erler (men, privates), aşağı tabaka (canaille, ragtag and bobtail). (various references)

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-3 letters: fairlead, franklin, infernal, inlander.

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