Ordering and Ranking

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Ordering noun - A scheme of rank or order.

Usage example: in the ordering of crimes, ripping the tags off upholstered furniture should rank fairly low

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Ranking and ordering are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ranking" instead a noun "Ordering".

Nearby Words: order, ordered

Ranking noun - A scheme of rank or order.

Usage example: in one ranking of the best places to live, San Francisco surpassed all the other cities in the U.S.

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Ordering and ranking are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ordering" instead a noun "Ranking".

Nearby Words: rank, ranked, ranker

This is in contrast to the previous Wolfenstein games, which had an entire organization of high-ranking females known as the Elite Guard ordering the lower ranking Nazis around.

Source: Video Game / Wolfenstein: The New Order
In Batman: Year One, several high ranking police members attempt to kill Batman by ordering the abandoned building he was in at the time bombed by helicopter.

Source: Aluminum Christmas Trees
The best example is when, as the party is escaping from Rak Cthol after Ctuchik's death, he gets them past several Grolim search parties by pretending to be a higher ranking Grolim and ordering them to move their search elsewhere.

Source: Literature / The Belgariad aka: The Malloreon

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