RANK AND FILE – A Necessary Element In Any Properly Functioning Social Order/Organization
|rank
[rangk]
noun
1. a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
2. a social or official position or standing, as in the armed forces: the rank of captain.
3. high position or station in the social or some similar scale: a woman of rank.
4. a class in any scale of comparison.
5. relative position or standing: a writer of the first rank.
file
[fahyl]
noun
1. a folder, cabinet, or other container in which papers, letters, etc., are arranged in convenient order for storage or reference.
2. a collection of papers, records, etc., arranged in convenient order: to make a file for a new account.
3. Computers. a collection of related data or program records stored on some input/output or auxiliary storage medium: This program’s main purpose is to update the customer master file.
4. a line of persons or things arranged one behind another (distinguished from rank ).
5. Military .
a. a person in front of or behind another in a military formation.
b. one step on a promotion list.