How to Use the rank and file in a Sentence

the rank and file

noun

• Fain, and the rank and file, are betting that the Big Three can shell out more.
  — Bypaige Hagy, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
• This all bubbled up from the rank and file up to the leadership of the guilds.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
• The three-and-a-half year contract still must be approved by the rank and file workers.
  — oregonlive, 9 June 2023
• When the money spigot stays on, everybody stays paid, the rank and file stays in line.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• But new research published in the American Journal of Public Health might give some hope to the rank and file.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
• At first glance, the rank and file are more bullish on generative AI, with 95% seeing value in working with it.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 31 May 2024
• In any other business, seeing the rank and file applaud the boss would smack of corporate fawning.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2024
• And suddenly there is this real clash between rule of law, or the story the institution wants to tell the world, versus where the rank and file is.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
• Current Indian Army personnel played all the rank and file soldier roles in the film, not extras.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Feb. 2024
• His regular videos kept the rank and file informed and energized even as the writers strike became one of the longest in history.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
• It should also be measured according to unions’ presence in the rank and file’s everyday nonworking lives.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
• He was generally seen as popular among the rank and file, and a number of pro-war military bloggers came to his defense on Tuesday.
  — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• Crack down on problem officers and excessive force, without alienating the rank and file.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
• The book outlines the key elements of McAlevey’s method, from conducting a power-structure analysis and stress tests to identifying leaders in the rank and file.
  — Eleni Schirmer, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
• Perhaps just as dangerous is the potential for division within the armed services as military brass are pitted against the rank and file.
  — Theo Milonopoulos, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2023
• But union leaders have only so much influence over the rank and file — and against the pull of Donald J. Trump, who has made working-class appeals central to his political movement.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
• Frequent management changes created strategic turmoil at the top, while adding pressure on the rank and file to generate returns.
  — Marion Halftermeyer, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2023
• In the Police Department, the rank and file is hearing rumors of buyouts and demotions, but many see the mayor’s plan to shrink the department as a political tactic.
  — Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• Since Sam Rayburn of Texas, who was first elected speaker in 1940, no Democratic speaker has returned to life in the rank and file and continued to serve more than a year after his or her tenure ended.
  — Amy B Wang, Marianna Sotomayor, Paul Kane, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2023
• However, by focusing only on the CEO (or other senior officers), the board might miss the chance to revisit how the rank and file are compensated.
  — Bruce Shaw, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
• Employees from that era say Dell became more connected than ever to his workforce, and even better about communication with the rank and file.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
• The Fraternal Order of Police, the department’s union for the rank and file, regularly blamed Harrison on social media for both.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 24 Aug. 2023
• From power brokers to the rank and file, a growing number are incensed by the hostile rhetoric surrounding Israel and the lack of solidarity, even as some 240 hostages continue to be held by Hamas.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
• The fallout from Paxton’s acquittal last month — on charges of bribery, abuse of office and other misconduct — only further inflamed relations among the leadership as well as the rank and file.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
• From pilots at airlines and other shippers to auto workers, the UPS deal signals that the rank and file has momentum behind them for negotiations.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
• Others might preemptively retire early—a dynamic that could spread throughout the officer corps and eventually even to the rank and file.
  — Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2024
• The back-to-back defeats highlighted the litany of problems Mr. Johnson inherited the day he was elected speaker and his inexperience in the position, roughly 100 days after being catapulted from the rank and file to the top job in the House.
  — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• But the one thing the Democratic Party is not supposed to be is anti-democratic — a party in which insiders select the nominee from the top down, not the bottom up, and which expects the rank and file to fall in line and clap enthusiastically.
  — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024
• But my decades of research into the enterprise adoption of emerging technologies has proved one thing time and again: The savviest leaders prioritize participation by the rank and file throughout the adoption process.
  — David De Cremer, Harvard Business Review, 17 June 2024
• The sky-high pay highlights a widening inequality between leaders and the rank and file, fueling workers’ suspicions that CEOs are increasingly out of touch with their employees.
  — Bypaige Hagy, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024