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Ranking vs Importance - What's the difference?

ranking | importance |

As nouns the difference between ranking and importance

is that ranking is ranking, table while importance is the quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.

ranking

English

(wikipedia ranking)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (in combination) having a specified rank
  • superior
    • As the ranking officer, Sergeant Taylor took charge of the investigation.
  • *2002 , , Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban , page 176
  • *:Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated — at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One’s relative placement in a list.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    importance

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
  • significance or prominence
  • personal status or standing