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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outrank
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Successful sales staff will outrank less successful workers, regardless of qualifications.
▪ The survey shows that humor and shared activities outrank sex as features of a good relationship.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He outranked me; he was the aircraft commander, with years of experience.
▪ He would be saying that he, because of his apostleship, outranked them because they were not apostles.
▪ Raskin was not happy about the development, but Jobs outranked him.
▪ Since he outranked Beauregard, Johnston assumed top command.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outrank

Outrank \Out*rank"\, v. t. To exceed in rank; hence, to take precedence of.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outrank

1829, from out (adv.) + rank. Related: Outranked; outranking.

Wiktionary
outrank

vb. (context transitive English) To be of a higher rank than.

WordNet
outrank

v. take precedence or surpass others in rank [syn: rank]

Usage examples of "outrank".

Cantor was the lowest conjuring rank, outranking banneret within the monastery.

After all, the robot nominally outranked everyone on the base except for General Blitzkrieg and his adjutant, neither of whom was likely to intervene.

He was one of the last folk to leave: not least of his chiefly requirements was being able to outeat and outdrink those he outranked.

I can recollect you telling me more than once in that preachy tone of thine that in England at least being a private citizen outranks any level of public service you care to mention.

From the insignia on his police jumpsuit, he clearly outranked Burns and Koto by a number of grades.

Azza here has been in the Cabal longer than I have, so technically she outranks me.

That will enable you to outrank the governors in their provinces, and to levy troops anywhere.

If the Baronet D’Rugier starts commandeering people’s ships and claiming to outrank the Domina of Lost Entibor, he’s going to lose them.

He doubted this constituted an honor guard since he had gathered that Nokias and Ferngal outranked Chaumel.

John Jacob Astor III who outranks her, at least according to primogeniture, for J.

Though the gunner outranked him, Ussmak said, “I think you ought to service the autoloader, too.

Twice he had the pleasure of running into some of the same bravados he had met going to the capitol and thoroughly enjoyed making them perform Kowtow as he now outranked them by some dis­tance.

This practice is said to annoy many Army and Marine Corps Brigadier Generals, particularly when they learn that they actually outrank the Rear Admiral, lower half, whom they have just saluted crisply.

Kinney now outranked him, Sir Augustus Farthingdale too, and Sharpe presumed that the single Major of the Fusiliers was also his superior.

And although first lieutenants outrank second lieutenants, it was immediately apparent not only that McCoy gave the orders on board the Last Time, but that the lieutenant was just about as impressed with Lieutenant McCoy as Sergeant Moore was.