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
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Rank and file (chess)
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distin ...
, the rows and columns on a chessboard
*The individual members of a political organization or
labour union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...
, exclusive of its leadership
*Rank and file movement, a blanket term for informal, Trotskyist militant groups among
British trade unionists
British may refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
, generally strenuously opposed to the union hierarchies and often facing expulsion by them
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Rank and File Movement, a militant movement which grew within the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers in the United States in 1934
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Rank and File (band)
Rank and File was an American country rock band established in 1981 in Austin, Texas by Chip Kinman and Tony Kinman, a pair of brothers who had been members of the seminal California punk rock band The Dils. The band were forerunners in combin ...
, an American cowpunk band
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''Rank and File'' (album), a 1987 album by the band
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"The Rank and File" (''Playhouse 90''), a 1959 American television play
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"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)
Napoleon at St Helena is a 2-deck patience or solitaire card game for one player. It is quite difficult to win, and luck-of-the-draw is a significant factor. The Emperor Napoleon often played patience during his final exile to the island of St He ...
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