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rank-and-filers

rank-and-filers is the plural of rank-and-filer.

Meaning of rank-and-filer

Noun

rank-and-filer (plural rank-and-filers)

  1. A member of the rank and file.
    • My mother was an active rank-and-filer in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in New York. She would go to the Union meetings, and she'd come back with this little song book called "The Little Red Song Book."1989 December 3, Pam Mitchell, Ronnie Gilbert, “Carrying On The Honorable Tradition Of 'Protest Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 8

Questions about rank-and-filers

What is rank-and-filers the plural of?
Rank-and-filers is the plural of rank-and-filer.

Words near rank-and-filers in the dictionary

  1. rank outsiders
  2. rank sum
  3. rank'd
  4. rank-and-file
  5. rank-and-filer
  6. rank-and-filers
  7. rank-deficient
  8. rank-nullity theorem
  9. rankability
  10. rankable
  11. rankachite

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