pull rank en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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To assert one's authority over a subordinate who disagrees.
And don't try pulling rank again: your answer, not your age, will determine your fate!
2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: The Great Tree:You can definitely pull rank on me on this —
2025 August 1, Ezra Klein, “Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement”, in The New York Times:Graduate schools teach students to use footnotes as authorities — barriers to anyone's questioning the author's conclusions. Professionalism then becomes a matter of pulling rank: the person who has the most footnotes has the last say.
1980 February 9, Charley Shively, “Radical History: Not Radical Enough”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 12:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pulls rank | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| pulled rank | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| pulled rank | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| pulling rank | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
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Translations (3)
pt carteirada (Translations) · pl wykorzystać swoje stanowisko (Translations) · pl wykorzystywać swoje stanowisko (Translations)