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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 troops, as opposed to the officers * Rank and file (chess), the rows and columns on a chessboard *The individual members of a political organization or
labour union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...
, exclusive of its leadership *Rank and file movement, a blanket term for informal, Trotskyist 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 ** ''Rank and File'' (album), a 1987 album by the 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) {{disambiguation