Usually means: Ordinary members of an organization.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word rank and file:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. rank and file: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rank-and-file, rank and file, the rank and file: Merriam-Webster
  3. rank and file: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rank and file: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rank-and-file, rank-and-file, rank and file: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rank and file: Vocabulary.com
  7. rank and file: Wordnik
  8. rank and file: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rank-and-file, rank and file: Wiktionary
  10. rank and file: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. rank-and-file, rank and file, the rank and file: Dictionary.com
  12. Rank and File (band), Rank and file (chess), Rank and file (disambiguation), Rank and file, The Rank and File: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. rank and file: Rhymezone
  14. Rank and File: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. rank and file: FreeDictionary.org
  16. rank and file: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. rank-and-file, rank and file: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. rank and file: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Rank and file (chess): Financial dictionary
  5. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rank and file (chess), rank and file: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rank and file (chess): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. rank-and-file, rank and file, the rank and file: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rank and File: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rank and file)

noun:  Enlisted soldiers in a military organization, as would be arrayed in a grid pattern with ranks and files.
noun:  (idiomatic) The members of an organization, community, etc. who are not in leadership positions.

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