conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
the body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they founddissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed"