Rank-and-file
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Rank-and-file may mean:
- The ordinary members of an organization, as opposed to officers or managers, especially non-commissioned ranks in the armed forces and ordinary local members in political parties and trade unions
- Someone in American politics who generally votes along party lines rather than being a moderate or a maverick
- The Rank and File Movement, a blanket term for informal left-leaning groups among British trade unionists, generally strenuously opposed by the union hierarchies and often facing expulsion
- This phrase comes from military usage, where enlisted men march in ranks (close abreast) and files (one behind another), whereas officers march outside these formations.
- Rank and File, a cowpunk band