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Ranking vs Standings - What's the difference?

ranking | standings |

As nouns the difference between ranking and standings

is that ranking is ranking, table while standings is .

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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    standings

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • A collective list of the standing of each team in a league.
    • I don't look at the standings because my team is doing poorly.
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