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rankee

rankee noun: someone or something that is ranked.

Noun

rankee (plural rankees)

  1. Someone or something that is ranked.
    • The C.D.S. is a product of the uneasy relationship between the U.S. News college rankers and their overburdened rankees. Schools don’t have the capacity to spend months responding to different data requests from the magazine, Peterson’s, the College Board and others like them.2022 September 24, Ron Lieber, “The Discount Data That Some Colleges Won’t Publish”, in The New York Times

Forms of rankee

pluralrankees

Origin of rankee

From rank + -ee.

Questions about rankee

What does rankee mean?
Rankee means someone or something that is ranked.
What part of speech is rankee?
Rankee is a noun.
What is the plural of rankee?
The plural of rankee is rankees.

Words near rankee in the dictionary

  1. ranked
  2. ranked ballot
  3. ranked ballots
  4. ranked choice
  5. ranked voting
  6. rankee
  7. rankees
  8. ranken
  9. rankened
  10. rankening
  11. rankens

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