Meaning & use
ranker
A soldier who has risen from the ranks to become a commissioned officer, rather than training at a military academy.
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The general had started as a ranker and worked his way up through years of service.
Rankers in that era rarely reached the highest levels of command.
A note on using this word
Ranker is a dated, mainly British military term, most familiar from older war fiction and historical accounts.
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