Rank and file

Rank and file may refer to:

• A military term relating to the horizontal "ranks" (rows) and vertical "files" (columns) of individual foot-soldiers, exclusive of the officers
• Positions on a chess board in chess terminology
• A term derived from the above used to refer to enlisted rank troops, as opposed to the officers
• The individual members of a political organization or labor union, exclusive of its leadership
• Rank and file movement, a blanket term for informal, left-leaning, militant groups among British trade unionists, generally strenuously opposed to the union hierarchies and by them, and often facing expulsion
• Rank and File Movement, a militant movement which grew within the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers in the United States in 1934
• Rank and File (band), an American post-punk band
• The Rank and File, a 1971 BBC television play written by Jim Allen and directed by Ken Loach
• A variation of Forty Thieves (card game)