rankee

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noun

Someone or something that is ranked.

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Meanings

nounrankee (plural rankees)

plural rankees

  1. Someone or something that is ranked.

    The C.D.S. is a product of the uneasy relationship between the U.S. News college rankers and their overburdened rankees. Schools don’t have the capacity to spend months responding to different data requests from the magazine, Peterson’s, the College Board and others like them.

    2022 September 24, Ron Lieber, “The Discount Data That Some Colleges Won’t Publish”, in The New York Times

Origin

From rank + -ee.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

rankee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rankee

MLA

“rankee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rankee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rankee,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rankee.

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