LekhoriLekhoripresent participle and gerund of rank
Having a specified rank.
Superior in rank.
Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated—at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad.
Prominent or outstanding.
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.
One’s relative placement in a list.
Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) CEO Warren Buffett and Facebook's (FB) Mark Zuckerberg rank third and fourth in the world's richest rankings.
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