front rank

collocation in English

meaningsoffrontandrank

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front
adjective[before noun]
uk
/frʌnt/us
/frʌnt/
in or at the front ...
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rank
noun
uk
/ræŋk/us
/ræŋk/
a position in an organization, such as the army, showing the importance of the person ...
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(Definition offrontandrankfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffront rank

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Cromwell's deep religious faith helped to make him an inspirational commander who led by example, from thefrontrank.
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It is very seldom that one is supported by all the stars in thefrontrank.
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It is that minority that has brought us and keeps us in this country in thefrontrankof civilisation.
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There are a fewfrontrankartists who get more work than they can cope with, and they are very highly paid.
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We fully recognise that our new partners, like ourselves, are highly advanced countries in thefrontrankof social organisation and scientific and technological achievements.
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The only thing which is indigenous to this country is our know-how, and in that respect we are in thefrontrankof the world.
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I do not know how it is to be carried out, because we have dropped out of thefrontrank.
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He had one of the highest reputations in the land, yet of all the men offrontrankhe was probably the easiest to underestimate.
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Those are the people who were in thefrontrankin the establishment of trusts.
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I accept that some may feel that things like libraries and archives may not be in thefrontrankof importance.
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Indeed, in the near and middle water fisheries it is in thefrontrank, maintaining the most modern fleet of vessels and catching prime fish.
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There are numbers of posts in the law in which people who have not quite got to thefrontrankfind a convenient resting place.
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That work is crucial if this nation is to remain in thefrontrankof industrial countries and to possess an independent economy.
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On the strength of what they said, we can be sure that they will not be in thefrontrankof candidates for his job.
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We want to see on it somebody from thefrontrankof borough treasurers as well as working members and working officials of local authorities.
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But it is in thefrontrankof true democracies.
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None of those were, or are, obviously, in thefrontrankof international politics or the political questions of the day.
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All through our history of public health legislation, in the veryfrontrankhas been the sanitary inspector.
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