Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
middle-ranking
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
high/top/low/middle-ranking
▪ a top-ranking tennis player
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even the middle-ranking provincial posts continued to attract humbler noblemen who often took them up after retiring from the army.
▪ In relative terms, Britain was shown to be a middle-ranking power with her ability to take independent military action strictly limited.
▪ The number of committed liberals among the middle-ranking landowners who dominated the zemstvos was not large.
▪ The stocky, pixie-faced minister realised he was unlikely to move beyond his middle-ranking position in the Tory hierarchy.
▪ This policy was associated with the radical Arab nationalism of the middle-ranking military officers who had carried out the June 1989 coup.
▪ Yet the symptoms of decline were tangible and created a growing sense of embattlement among middle-ranking landowners.
Usage examples of "middle-ranking".
Vorreedi was dressed as usual in the underlayers and robes of a middle-ranking ghem-lord of painfully sober preferences, subdued blues and grays.