rank-and-filer

English

Etymology

rank and file +‎ -er

Noun

rank-and-filer (plural rank-and-filers)

1. A member of the rank and file.
   • 1989 December 3, Pam Mitchell, Ronnie Gilbert, “Carrying On The Honorable Tradition Of 'Protest Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 8:

     My mother was an active rank-and-filer in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in New York. She would go to the Union meetings, and she'd come back with this little song book called "The Little Red Song Book."

Translations

member of rank and file

• Finnish: rivimies (fi); rivijäsen (fi) (in an association)