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Rank and file may refer to:

  • A military term relating to the horizontal "ranks" (rows) and vertical "files" (columns) of individual foot-soldiers, exclusive of the officers
  • A term derived from the above used to refer to enlisted troops, as opposed to the officers
  • Rank and file (chess), the rows and columns on a chessboard
  • The individual members of a political organization or labour union, exclusive of its leadership
  • Rank and file movement, a blanket term for informal, Trotskyist militant groups among British trade unionists, generally strenuously opposed to the union hierarchies and often facing expulsion by them
  • Rank and File Movement, a militant movement which grew within the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers in the United States in 1934
  • Rank and File (band), an American cowpunk band
  • "The Rank and File" (Playhouse 90), a 1959 American television play
  • "The Rank and File" (Play for Today), a 1971 BBC television play written by Jim Allen and directed by Ken Loach
  • A variation of Forty Thieves (card game)

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Rank and file

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Look up rank and file in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rank and file may refer to: A military term relating to the horizontal "ranks" (rows) and vertical...

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Chess

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and if this is impossible, the game is immediately lost (see Check and checkmate below). A rook can move any number of squares along a rank or file,...

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Military rank

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archer. A Greek cavalry company was led by a tetrarchès or tetrarch. The rank and file of the military in most of the Greek city states was composed of ordinary...

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Finnish military ranks

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command personnel (alipäällystö) rank and file (miehistö) The rank-and-file (miehistö) consists of personnel with the rank of sotamies or korpraali; personnel...

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Trade union

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elected leadership and bargaining committee, bargains with the employer on behalf of its members, known as the rank and file, and negotiates labour contracts...

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Ken Paff

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Pennsylvania) is one of the founders and current National Organizer of Teamsters for a Democratic Union, a rank-and-file union democracy movement organizing...

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Union representative

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company who represents and defends the interests of their fellow employees as a trades/labour union member and official. Rank-and-file members of the union...

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Moses Sumney

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January 2021. He, Richard S. (2021-09-10). "Every Metallica Blacklist cover ranked from worst to best". loudersound. Retrieved 2021-10-22. "Moses Sumney Chart...

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International Brotherhood of Teamsters

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ISBN 978-0-531-15105-1 Friedman, Samuel. Teamster Rank and File: Power, Bureaucracy, and Rebellion at Work and in a Union. New York: Columbia University Press...

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Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel

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with the rank and file of the SS, like the rest of the SA, still wearing a variety of brown shirts or paramilitary uniforms. The early rank system of...

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South African military ranks

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Force's rank system is largely based on the British system, with the Air Force (and later the Military Health Service) sharing the Army rank titles. Rank titles...

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Rank and File Mobilising Committee

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The Rank and File Mobilising Committee (RFMC) was an umbrella group which coordinated left wing groups to campaign for increased democracy within the...

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Iron law of oligarchy

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they do not want the rank-and-file to know. Leaders will also dedicate significant resources to persuade the rank-and-file of the rightness of their views...

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Sergeant

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separate rank the British Army in 1797. In battle formation, the line companies were marched into formation in three ranks consisting of the "rank and file" (i...

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Labor Law for the Rank and Filer

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Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law is a 1978 guidebook on labor organizing written by labor historian...

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Cossacks

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because the starshyna were divided on the issue, and it had even less support among rank-and-file Cossacks. Under Russian rule, the Cossack nation of...

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Labor Notes

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organization and network for rank-and-file union members and grassroots labor activists. Though officially titled the Labor Education and Research Project...

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Uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung

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ranks was required in response to the growing rank and file membership of the SA troopers. These new titles and ranks were denoted by an insignia system which...

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Industrial Workers of the World

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part of IWW publications. Produced by unpaid rank and file members they satirised the union's opponents and helped spread its messages in various forms...

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Ryadovoy

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context means "file" or "rank" (in the sense of "rank and file"). The Imperial Russian Army used the designation ryadovoy before 1917. The rank re-appeared...

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Backbencher

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spokesperson in the Opposition, being instead simply a member of the "rank and file". The term dates from 1855. The term derives from the fact that they...

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Vasile Milea

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Timișoara without ammunition. Whatever the case, Milea's death caused the rank-and-file soldiers to go over almost en masse to the revolution, effectively ending...

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Conscription in Finland

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The service period is 165 days, 255 days, or 347 days for the rank and file conscripts and 347 days for conscripts trained as non-commissioned officers...

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Battalion chief

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States and Canada. A battalion chief is the lowest chief officer in a fire department's rank structure, above rank-and-file fire station officers and fire...

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