Ranking
adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 One’s relative placement in a list.
"Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) CEO Warren Buffett and Facebook's (FB) Mark Zuckerberg rank third and fourth in the world's richest rankings."
- 2 position on a scale in relation to others in status or rank or achievement wordnet
- 1 present participle and gerund of rank form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 Having a specified rank. in-compounds
- 2 Superior in rank.
"Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated—at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad."
- 3 Prominent or outstanding.
"In a region as large and sparsely populated as this, it is not surprising that there are few cities. Hu-ho-hao-t’e and Pao-t’ou are the two ranking cities of Inner Mongolia. Hu-ho-hao-t’e, the capital of the region, is one of China's famous ancient cities; it was once a trade center to which the wool, hides, food, and medicine from the surrounding grasslands were brought."
- 1 having a higher rank wordnet
Example
More examples"In the OECD survey, northern European countries are keeping their high ranking in tax-rates."
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