ranking
- adjective
- /ˈræŋkɪŋ/
- I am basically working for the highest ranking lawyer in an entire state, the Attorney General.
They were the senior ranking members on their sides of the aisle.
- They were the senior ranking members on their sides of the aisle.
- Now it was Arthur Schlesinger's senior who was the ranking guest in Cambridge, I was told.
- And he was the ranking minority member of the Senate Finance Committee.
- We are just three episodes in and you have made this podcast one of the top ranking podcasts in the world as we have debuted.
- So then he comes back from Riyadh, they make him the executive director of the CIA, the third ranking officer in the entire CIA.
- When Republican ranking member Devin Nunes began his questioning, Vinman was not afraid to clap back.
- My view is if you are that senior ranking in the Chinese Communist Party, you view the United States as your enemy, as as as a hostile power.
Examples
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They were the senior ranking members on their sides of the aisle.
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So then he comes back from Riyadh, they make him the executive director of the CIA, the third ranking officer in the entire CIA.
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His mother was the highest ranking female at the time, Fifi.
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Our guest is America's highest ranking Sasquatch Senator John Fetterman.
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She is the highest ranking officer in the organization, responsible for all major decisions.
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After years of dedication, he became the highest ranking official in the regional office.
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The general was respected as the third highest ranking member in the military hierarchy.
Synonyms
Having a very important position or rank
Having a higher rank or position than other people in a group
A person who has an important senior job in an organization
A part of an organization that is at a higher position
Antonyms
Compounds
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ranking comes from rank, which originally meant a 'row' or line of people, like soldiers. So a 'ranking' person is someone who has a high place in that line or order inside an organization.