Antonyms for rank file
Grammar : Noun |
Definition of rank file
Origin :- 1590s, in reference to the horizontal and vertical lines of soldiers marching in formation; thence generalized to "common soldiers" (1796) and "common people" (1860).
- As in labor : noun person(s) performing service
- As in masses : noun public, crowd
- As in people : noun human beings
- As in plebeian : noun person of lower class
- As in proletariat : noun working class
- As in rabble : noun mob
- As in riffraff : noun rabble
- As in grass roots : noun ordinary people
- As in lower class : noun working people with least money
- As in ragtag and bobtail : noun lowest common denominator
- As in rank and file : noun general public
- As in Tom, Dick, and Harry : noun common man
- As in working class : noun common laborers
- As in ruck : noun crowd
- As in commune : noun group living together
- As in crowd : noun large assembly
- As in hoi polloi : noun common people
Synonyms for rank file
- anybody at all
- apprentice
- army
- array
- blowout
- blue collar
- blue-collar workers
- bodies
- body politic
- bourgeois
- bourgeoisie
- breadwinner
- bunch
- canaille
- cats
- cattle
- circle
- citizens
- clan
- clique
- cloud
- cluster
- collective
- common laborer
- common people
- common ruck
- common run
- common soldiery
- common sort
- commonage
- commonality
- commonalty
- commoner
- commoners
- community
- company
- concourse
- confluence
- conflux
- congeries
- congregation
- cooperative
- coterie
- crew
- crowd
- crush
- deluge
- dregs of society
- drove
- employee
- Everyman
- Everywoman
- faction
- factory laborer
- factory laborers
- family
- flock
- flood
- folk
- folks
- forces
- gaggle
- gang
- gathering
- general public
- grass roots
- great unwashed
- group
- hack
- hand
- hard hat
- heads
- help
- helper
- herd
- hireling
- hoi polloi
- horde
- host
- human race
- humanity
- humankind
- humans
- infrastructure
- inhabitants
- instrument
- jam
- John/Jane Q. Public
- kibbutz
- kin
- laborer
- laboring class
- learner
- legion
- lot
- lower class
- lower orders
- lower ranks
- lowest social class
- lowlife
- majority
- mass
- masses
- meet
- Middle America
- middle class
- mob
- mortals
- multitude
- municipality
- muster
- nation
- nationality
- neighborhood
- one-percenters
- operative
- organization
- other half
- outcast
- pack
- party
- peasant
- people
- person in the street
- persons
- plain folks
- pleb
- plebe
- plebeians
- plebians
- plebs
- populace
- population
- posse
- prentice
- press
- proles
- proletarian
- proletariat
- public
- rabble
- race
- ragtag
- ragtag and bobtail
- rank and file
- ranks
- riffraff
- ring
- riot
- score
- scores
- scum
- sellout
- set
- society
- stream
- surge
- swarm
- the masses
- the other half
- throng
- toiler
- trash
- tribe
- troupe
- tumult
- undesirables
- unskilled laborer
- unskilled laborers
- vermin
- village
- wage-earners
- work force
- worker
- workers
- workfolk
- working class
- working people
- working stiff
- working stiffs
- workpeople
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