English

Adjective

ranking ‎(comparative more ranking, superlative most ranking)

1. (in combination) Having a specified rank.
2. Superior.

   As the ranking officer, Sergeant Taylor took charge of the investigation.

   • 2002, Stephen Tanner, Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban, page 176

     Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated — at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad.

Translations

Noun

ranking ‎(plural rankings)

1. One’s relative placement in a list.

Descendants

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Verb

ranking

1. present participle of rank

Anagrams

• narking

Spanish

Etymology

From English.

Noun

ranking m ‎(plural rankings)

1. ranking