英和和英

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名詞

rank and file (uncountable)

1. Enlisted soldiers in a military organization, as would be arrayed in a grid pattern with ranks and files.
2. (idiomatic) Members of an organization who are not in leadership positions.

   The executives attend meetings in exotic locations while the rank and file stays at headquarters doing the bulk of the work.

   • 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     First, a prominent Tory called the party’s rank and file “swivel-eyed loons.”

形容詞

rank-and-file (not comparable)

1. Belonging or pertaining to the rank and file.
   • 1962 September, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—1”, in Modern Railways, page 164:

     The morale of the rank-and-file Highland railwaymen has remained remarkably high, in view of the extent to which the London press and many an English M.P. have already discarded their railways.

   • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎^[2], number Summer 2019:

     Rank-and-file progressives don’t usually think of the immigration policies they support—expanding refugee quotas, easing restrictions on some classes of immigrants, and ending family separation—as an endorsement of detention, deportation, and racialized terror.