rank of group
11rank and file — {n. phr.} Ordinary people; the regular membership of an organization; the enlisted privates in the Army. * /The general usually inspects the rank and file on specific national holidays./ * /The secretary of the association sends letters annually… …
12rank´-and-file´ — rank and file, 1. a) common soldiers, not officers, especially those with the rank of corporal or below; ranks. b) the people in a business, labor union, political party, or other institution or group, who are not a part of the management. »Labor …
13rank and file, the — noun all the members of a group or organization except the leaders or officers: The union s message is popular with the rank and file. ╾ ,rank and file adjective …
14group captain — n a fairly high rank in the British air force, or someone who has this rank …
15group — [n] number of individuals collectively accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, assembly, association, assortment, band, batch, battery, bevy, body, bunch, bundle, cartel, category, chain, circle, class, clique, clot, club, clump, cluster, clutch …
16group-captain — groupˈ captain noun A Royal Air Force officer of equivalent rank to a colonel or naval captain • • • Main Entry: ↑group …
17rank and file — rank and file, adj. 1. the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers. 2. rank1 (def. 7a). [1590 1600] * * * …
18group — I noun affiliation, aggregate, array, assemblage, assembly, association, band, bracket, branch, category, circle, class, classification, clique, cluster, coalition, collection, community, conglomeration, constituency, corps, crowd, denomination,… …
19group captain — noun count an officer of high rank in the British air force …
20Rank of a group — For the dimension of the Cartan subgroup, see Rank of a Lie group In the mathematical subject of group theory, the rank of a group G , denoted rank( G ), can refer to the smallest cardinality of a generating set for G , that is:… …
