A specified position in a numbered series.

(nautical, Royal Navy) The rank of a flag officer. / Any of several equivalent ranks in several other naval or other military organizations.

At an important, elevated, or exalted level in a hierarchy or organization; high-level.

Of the highest rank

An area reserved for taxi cabs to await customers. / (Britain) The system whereby barristers must accept a brief if they are the first available when one comes up.

(idiomatic) To assert one's authority over a subordinate who disagrees.

Alternative spelling of rank and file

Belonging or pertaining to the rank and file.

(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.