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other rank en · NOUN
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(in-plural) A soldier who is not a commissioned officer.
There were to be these raiders – Amon, myself and thirty ‘other ranks’ […]
1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 125:As I was wearing no badges of rank I was mistaken for an other rank.
1992, AJ Deane-Drummond, Arrows of Fortune, page 42:Originating as an officers' style, this one was quickly embraced by Other Ranks as well.
1975, Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory:He knew that Sergeant-Major Cowley wanted to get the Other Ranks out of the hut with that captain carrying on like that, and he did not see why the old N.C.O. should not have what he wanted.
1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 301:
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