ALL meanings of pull rank
pull rank
P p - noun pull rank a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body. 1
- noun pull rank a social or official position or standing, as in the armed forces: the rank of captain. 1
- noun pull rank high position or station in the social or some similar scale: a woman of rank. 1
- noun pull rank a class in any scale of comparison. 1
- noun pull rank relative position or standing: a writer of the first rank. 1
- noun pull rank a row, line, or series of things or persons: orchestra players arranged in ranks. 1
- noun pull rank ranks. the members of an armed service apart from its officers; enlisted personnel. military enlisted personnel as a group. 1
- noun pull rank Usually, ranks. the general body of any party, society, or organization apart from the officers or leaders. 1
- noun pull rank orderly arrangement; array. 1
- noun pull rank a line of persons, especially soldiers, standing abreast in close-order formation (distinguished from file). 1
- noun pull rank British. a place or station occupied by vehicles available for hire; stand: a taxi rank. 1
- noun pull rank Chess. one of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard. 1
- noun pull rank a set of organ pipes of the same kind and tonal color. 1
- noun pull rank Also called determinant rank. Mathematics. the order of the nonzero determinant of greatest order that can be selected from a given matrix by the elimination of rows and columns. 1
- noun pull rank Mining. the classification of coal according to hardness, from lignite to anthracite. 1
- verb with object pull rank to arrange in ranks or in regular formation: The men were ranked according to height. He ranked the chess pieces on the board. 1
- verb with object pull rank to assign to a particular position, station, class, etc.: She was ranked among the most admired citizens. 1
- verb with object pull rank to outrank: The colonel ranks all other officers in the squadron. 1
- verb with object pull rank Slang. to insult; criticize. 1
- verb without object pull rank to form a rank or ranks. 1
- verb without object pull rank to take up or occupy a place in a particular rank, class, etc.: to rank well ahead of the other students. 1
- verb without object pull rank to have rank or standing. 1
- verb without object pull rank to be the senior in rank: The colonel ranks at this camp. 1
- verb without object pull rank Slang. to complain. 1
- idioms pull rank break ranks, to leave an assigned position in a military formation. to disagree with, defect from, or refuse to support one's colleagues, party, or the like. 1
- idioms pull rank pull rank (on), to make use of one's superior rank to gain an advantage over (someone). Also, pull one's rank (on) 1
- verbal expression pull rank assert one's authority 1
- noun pull rank to get one's own way by virtue of one's superior position or rank 0