adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
high/top/low/middle-ranking
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a top-ranking tennis player
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even the middle-ranking provincial posts continued to attract humbler noblemen who often took them up after retiring from the army.
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In relative terms, Britain was shown to be a middle-ranking power with her ability to take independent military action strictly limited.
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The number of committed liberals among the middle-ranking landowners who dominated the zemstvos was not large.
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The stocky, pixie-faced minister realised he was unlikely to move beyond his middle-ranking position in the Tory hierarchy.
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This policy was associated with the radical Arab nationalism of the middle-ranking military officers who had carried out the June 1989 coup.
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Yet the symptoms of decline were tangible and created a growing sense of embattlement among middle-ranking landowners.