Rank And File Definition

noun
The body of soldiers of an army, as distinguished from the officers.
Webster's New World
The common people, as distinguished from leaders or officials; specif., the ordinary members of a labor union, political party, etc., as opposed to its leaders.
Webster's New World

Common soldiers, as would be arrayed in a grid pattern with ranks and files.

Wiktionary

(idiomatic) Those lacking any particular title or status; those having no station.

The executives attend meetings in exotic locations while the rank and file stays at headquarters doing the bulk of the work.
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Rank And File Sentence Examples

  • The most striking declaration of his ideals was the marriage feast at Susa in 32 4, when a large number of the Macedonian nobles were induced to marry Persian princesses, and the rank and file were encouraged by special rewards to take Eastern wives.

  • All officers and many of the rank and file wear a uniform.

  • The Unionist rank and file were committed to its support, - many even advocating its increase to two shillings at least.

  • The rank and file of the Tatar soldiery were known as Kazaki, or Cossacks, a word meaning "freebooters," and this term came to be applied indiscriminately to all the free dwellers in the Ukraine, or border-lands.

  • The reaction was followed for a short interval by a return to approximately the former party alignment, but in 1854 the rank and file of the Whigs joined the American or Know-Nothing party while most of the Whig leaders went over to the Democrats.

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