• Ranking

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈɹænk.ɪŋ/
    • Rhymes: -ænkɪŋ

    Origin

    Full definition of ranking

    Adjective

    ranking

    1. (in combination) having a specified rank
    2. superiorAs 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 176Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated — at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad.

    Noun

    ranking

    (plural rankings)
    1. One’s relative placement in a list.

    Verb

    ranking
    1. Present participle of rank

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