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Phrase(s): rank someone or something as something
to assign a particular rank to someone or something. • I have to rank Sally as number one. She’s the best. • Mary ranked the chocolate as the best she had ever eaten., Phrase(s): rank as something
to have a particular rank; to serve in a particular rank. • She ranks as a fine pianist in my book. • Don ranks as the top economist of the day.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs