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Webster 1828 Edition
Ranking
RANK'ING
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Definition 2024
ranking
ranking
See also: ránking
English
Adjective
ranking (comparative more ranking, superlative most ranking)
- (in combination) Having a specified rank.
- Superior.
- As the ranking officer, Sergeant Taylor took charge of the investigation.
- 2002, Stephen Tanner, Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban, page 176
- Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated — at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad.
Translations
having a specified rank
superior
Noun
ranking (plural rankings)
Descendants
Descendants of ranking in other languages
Translations
placement in a list
Verb
ranking
- present participle of rank