ranking
senior or superior in rank, position, etc.: a ranking diplomat.
prominent or highly regarded: a ranking authority on Soviet affairs.
occupying a specific rank, position, etc. (often used in combination): a low-ranking executive.
an act or instance of indicating relative standing.
a list showing such standing.
Origin of ranking
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How to use ranking in a sentence
These factors are most important to students and so they make up the majority of our rankings.
There really are those rankings that exist after each episode airs every week.
How Aidy Bryant Stealthily Became Your Favorite ‘Saturday Night Live’ Star | Kevin Fallon | October 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBig box retailers like Ikea and Walmart generally lead the rankings.
Yet such rankings vastly underestimate the power now being wielded by the San Francisco region.
Battle of the Upstarts: Houston vs. San Francisco Bay | Joel Kotkin | October 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRussianoff says that after 16 years of Straphangers Campaign rankings, the subway remains a “mixed bag.”
Leaky Ceilings, Catcalls, and Uncaged Pythons: 4 Hours on NYC’s Worst Subway | Kevin Zawacki | August 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Smith also presents his results in the form of coefficients of correlation between various rankings.
Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods | Harry L. HollingworthThe following table gives the results when these two rankings were correlated by two statistical methods of computing correlation.
Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods | Harry L. Hollingworth
British Dictionary definitions for ranking
/ (ˈræŋkɪŋ) /
mainly US and Canadian prominent; high ranking
Caribbean slang possessed of style; fashionable; exciting
a position on a scale; rating: a ranking in a tennis tournament
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