ranking

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæn.kɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæŋ.kɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ænkɪŋ

ranking

1. present participle and gerund of rank

ranking (comparative more ranking, superlative most ranking)

1. (in combination) Having a specified rank.
2. Superior in rank.
   • 2002, Stephen Tanner, Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban, page 176:

     Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated—at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad.

3. Prominent or outstanding.
   • 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Inner Mongolia”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China‎, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 188, column 1:

     In a region as large and sparsely populated as this, it is not surprising that there are few cities. Hu-ho-hao-t’e and Pao-t’ou are the two ranking cities of Inner Mongolia. Hu-ho-hao-t’e, the capital of the region, is one of China's famous ancient cities; it was once a trade center to which the wool, hides, food, and medicine from the surrounding grasslands were brought.

   • 1990, Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s, page 48:

     But neither leader nor followers give up the rhythms or reasons of a ranking MC, and I'm grieved to report that only “Kick Out the Jams” overcomes the formlessness of personality his detractors have always charged him with — […]

ranking (plural rankings)

1. One’s relative placement in a list.

• narking

• rankin (nonstandard)

Borrowed from Spanish ranking, from English ranking.

• IPA^(key): /rankin/, [rãŋ.kĩn]

ranking inan

1. ranking

• "ranking" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

Borrowed from English ranking.

• IPA^(key): /ˈraŋ.kiŋk/
• Rhymes: -aŋkiŋk
• Syllabification: ran‧king

ranking m inan

1. ranking (placement in a list)

   Synonym: gradacja

• ranking in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ranking in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English ranking.

ranking m (plural rankings)

1. ranking

   Synonym: classificação

Unadapted borrowing from English ranking.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrankin/ [ˈrãŋ.kĩn]
• Rhymes: -ankin

ranking m (plural rankings)

1. ranking

   Synonym: clasificación

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “ranking”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014