| 队伍 | duì wǔ | ranks / troops / queue / line / procession / CL:個|个[ge4],支[zhi1],條|条[tiao2] |   |
| 行列 | háng liè | formation / array / (fig.) ranks (as in "join the ranks of ...") | |
| 落伍 | luò wǔ | to fall behind the ranks / to be outdated | |
| 越级 | yuè jí | to skip a grade / to bypass ranks / to go over the head of one's boss | |
| 内奸 | nèi jiān | undiscovered traitor / enemy within one's own ranks | |
| 敌阵 | dí zhèn | the enemy ranks | |
| 前茅 | qián máo | forward patrol (military) (old) / (fig.) the top ranks | |
| 出列 | chū liè | (military) to leave one's place in the ranks / to fall out / (fig.) to emerge / to become prominent | |
| 提干 | tí gàn | to rise through the ranks (as a party cadre) | |
| 清理队伍 | qīng lǐ duì wǔ | to purge the ranks | |
| 清队 | qīng duì | to purge the ranks | |
| 长坂坡七进七出 | cháng bǎn pō qī jìn qī chū | famous scene in Romance of the Three Kingdoms in which Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云 / charges seven times through the ranks of Cao Cao's armies | |
| 联合国初级人员用维持和平手册 | | United Nations Peacekeeping Handbook for Junior Ranks | |
