Definition for Rank and file:

• The general employees that do not include the managerial positions and department heads. It derives from a military term where soldiers stood according to rank and in lines or files.

Synonyms for Rank and file:

• n.

  •
  • infantry,
  • ranks.
  •
  • commoner,
  • member,
  • commonalty.
  •Tom, Dick, and Harry (noun)
  • everywomans,
  • tom, dick, harry,
  • plain folk,
  • anybody all,
  • everymans.
  •common man (noun)
  • Tom, Dick, and Harry.
  •common people (noun)
  • hoi polloi.
  •commune (noun)
  • community,
  • cooperative,
  • collective,
  • Family,
  • village,
  • neighborhood,
  • municipality,
  • commonality.
  •crowd (noun)
  • congeries,
  • concourse,
  • cluster,
  • pack,
  • scores,
  • throng,
  • host,
  • mob,
  • press,
  • stream,
  • swarm,
  • legion,
  • jam,
  • drove,
  • herd,
  • posse,
  • congregation,
  • muster,
  • clique,
  • multitude,
  • flock,
  • lot,
  • set,
  • blowout,
  • array,
  • tumult,
  • crew,
  • sellout,
  • conflux,
  • surge,
  • bunch,
  • party,
  • company,
  • group,
  • confluence,
  • faction,
  • crush,
  • horde,
  • mass,
  • deluge,
  • meet,
  • coterie,
  • cattle,
  • troupe,
  • army,
  • circle,
  • cloud,
  • organization.
  •grass roots (noun)
  • wageearners,
  • laboring classes,
  • wageearner.
  •hoi polloi (noun)
  • the proletariat,
  • huddled masses,
  • the masses,
  • the multitude,
  • Middle America,
  • the many,
  • the herd,
  • common people,
  • the working class,
  • commoners,
  • infra-structure,
  • infrastructure,
  • vulgus,
  • plebians,
  • the common people,
  • plebian.
  •plebeian (noun)
  • peasant,
  • pleb.
  •proletariat (noun)
  • blue-collar workers.
  •rabble (noun)
  • ring,
  • scum,
  • riot,
  • gang,
  • gathering.
  •ragtag and bobtail (noun)
  • common ruck,
  • lowest social class,
  • ragtag.
  •rank and file (noun)
  • forces,
  • proletariat,
  • common run,
  • common soldiery,
  • common sort,
  • majority,
  • plebeians.
  •riffraff (noun)
  • undesirables,
  • one-percenters.
  •working class (noun)
  • unskilled laborer,
  • prole,
  • Workfolk,
  • factory laborers,
  • unskilled laborers,
  • workpeople,
  • proles,
  • working-class,
  • common laborer,
  • the other half,
  • factory laborer.

• Other synonyms:

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  • soldier,
  • troops,
  • peasantry.

Antonyms for Rank and file:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    fat, A-list, royalty, aristocracy, pick, Patriciate, elite, society, flower, elect, upper crust, peerage, cream, best, choice, pride, Gentlefolk, quality, gentry, nobility, pink, corps d'elite, gentility.

Hyponym for Rank and file:

• n.

  • group
    people, personnel, force.

Meronym for Rank and file:

• n.

  • group
    enlisted man.