Rank and file

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Rank and file may refer to:

• A military term relating to the horizontal "ranks" (rows) and vertical "files" (columns) of individual foot-soldiers, exclusive of the officers
• A term derived from the above used to refer to enlisted rank troops, as opposed to the officers
• Positions on a chess board in chess terminology
• The individual members of a political organization or labour union, exclusive of its leadership
• Rank and file movement, a blanket term for informal, left-leaning, militant groups among British trade unionists, generally strenuously opposed to the union hierarchies and often facing expulsion by them
• Rank and File Movement, a militant movement which grew within the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers in the United States in 1934
• Rank and File (band), an American cowpunk band
• "The Rank and File" (Playhouse 90), a 1959 American television play
• "The Rank and File" (Play for Today), a 1971 BBC television play written by Jim Allen and directed by Ken Loach
• A variation of Forty Thieves (card game)

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