(informal, business) A model of employee productivity in which workers are ranked into the top 20 percent, the adequate 70 percent, or the bottom 10 percent, and those in the bottom group are fired.

(military, chiefly in the plural) A soldier who is not a commissioned officer.

plural of other rank

A member of the rank and file.

plural of military rank

A grade conferred upon officers in armed forces, police and intelligence agencies, typically denoted by particular insignia affixed to their uniforms.

plural of ordinal rank

plural of rank-and-filer

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of de-rank

simple past tense and past participle of de-rank