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Ranker   /rˈæŋkər/   Listen
Ranker

noun
1.
A commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status.
2.
An enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces.





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"Ranker" Quotes from Famous Books



... illustrations which have been introduced, are reproductions in pen and ink of pencil sketches done on the veldt or in hospital. The sole aim throughout has been to represent a true picture of the every-day life of a trooper in the Imperial Yeomanry. In many cases the "grousing" of the ranker may strike the reader as objectionable, and had this record been penned in a comfortable study, arm-chair philosophy might have caused many a passage to be omitted. But the true campaigning atmosphere would have ...
— A Yeoman's Letters - Third Edition • P. T. Ross


Words linked to "Ranker" :   United Kingdom, U.K., soldier, UK, Great Britain, Britain, commissioned officer, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, rank


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