verb
- past tense and past participle of outrank; to have a higher rank or position than someone else
Usage: military; organizational hierarchy
Examples
- The colonel outranked all the other officers at the meeting.
- She was outranked by her supervisor in the company hierarchy.
- The general outranked everyone else in the room.
- He felt frustrated being outranked by someone with less experience.
- The senior partner outranked all the junior associates.
- Despite her skills, she was outranked by the department head.