rank order

1. 1.

   an arrangement according to rank

   Broaderorder

Questions about rank order

What does rank order mean?

rank order means "an arrangement according to rank".

Is rank order a common word?

rank order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.