单词 | rank |
释义 | rank rank // noun, verb
■ noun
1 [U,C] the position, especially a high position, that sb has in an organization: He holds the rank of chief executive. Promotion will mean that I'm immediately above him in rank. Most of their management ranks were filled by business school graduates. She rose through the ranks to become managing director. ⇨ RANKING
a low/high/middle/top rank ◆ executive/junior/management/senior ranks
2 [sing.] the position that sb/sth has in a list arranged according to quality or importance: a business park of the first rank The new company will be in the top rank of financial institutions. We are no longer in the front rank of exporting countries.
the first/second rank ◆ the bottom/top rank
3 the ranks [pl.] the members of a particular group or organization: joining the growing ranks of the unemployed Most of the candidates came from within the company's ranks.
IDIOMS
break ranks if members of a group or an organization break ranks, they refuse to support the group
■ verb [+ obj or no obj] (not used in the continuous tenses)
to give sb/sth a particular position on a scale according to quality, importance, success, etc.; to have a position of this kind: The tasks have been ranked in order of difficulty. They rank among the top ten PC makers. a top-ranked business school The deal ranks as Canada's largest this year. They rank 161 on the Inc 500 list of America's fastest-growing companies. SYN RATE |
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