rank and filenoun [ + sing/pl verb ]
uk/ˌræŋk ən ˈfaɪl/us/ˌræŋk ən ˈfaɪl/the ordinary workers in a company or the ordinary members of an organization, and not the leaders:
The party's rank and file are beginning to question the prime minister's choice of advisers.
[ before noun ] rank-and-file police officers
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ordinary people
- community
- Essex girl
- folk
- grassroots
- Jane Doe
- Joe Bloggs
- mass
- mass market
- Middle America
- mortal
- multitude
- omnibus
- on the ground idiom
- popular
- popularly
- the common man idiom
- the general public
- the hoi polloi
- the man/woman in the street idiom
- the man/woman on the Clapham omnibus idiom
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