Today’s “Word of the Day” is “rank and file” and it is a noun meaning “the ordinary members or workers of a party/organisation/company. It is originally a military term relating to the individual foot-soldiers, excluding the officers”.
Example Sentence: In the run-up to the Assembly elections in Telangana, all three major contenders – the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS), the Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – seem confident of victory. However, internal dissidence and one-upmanship is dividing their rank and file.
This word is present in The commonality of dissent and disunity and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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