with lower rank vs with lower-ranking

Both "with lower rank" and "with lower-ranking" are correct, but they are used in different contexts. "With lower rank" is used when referring to a specific rank that is lower than another, while "with lower-ranking" is used when comparing the ranking of multiple items or individuals.

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with lower rank

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when referring to a specific rank that is lower than another. It is often used in contexts where ranks are being compared.

Examples:

He was promoted to a higher position due to his performance with lower rank employees.
The team with lower rank in the tournament surprised everyone by winning the championship.

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Running away with someone of lower rank?
What's so bad about falling in love with someone of lower rank?
If you are sitting in a game room, you can summon/beam another NAMEd user with a rank lower than yourself to where you currently are.
Officers need not explain to lower ranks.
The other dicasteries were of lower rank.
About 2 thousand Saxons were killed, Russians took 76 officers, 2380 lower ranks prisoner.
With my extensive experience, I could skip the lower ranks entirely and begin my career as a Commander.
Internet has also become a powerful immaterial platform, capable of giving intangible value to products, promoting them from the lower ranks.
A soldier of lower rank, as an award to his services asked the emperor permissioin to marry you.
The French brigade general Sen-Zhenye, 3 officers and 140 lower ranks were taken prisoner.
But it turns out that love is very strictly forbidden in the lower ranks of the guerrilla, so their romance was discovered and they were separated.
Since for some perverse reason many of the people treasonable to England are to be found in the lower ranks of the government service.
The problem is that it was working in the lower ranks of the guerrilla.
Perhaps I am of lower rank than your husband?
By creating a flow of cultural information and conversation, the interactive and relational public of the new internet devises a production method and gathers horizontal opinions from the lower ranks.
My first real job was as a production runner for recording companies in Bordeaux - vinyl was the standard at this time... - and then I moved up through the lower ranks to sound engineer, producer and art director.
The "soldiers" the next lower rank, were to gather around an "apostle" and to adore the contents of the locket.
The instructive texts, now directed at lower ranks in the bureaucracy, were no longer based on the assumption that right thinking and just action automatically lead to wordly success, but instead counsel contemplation and endurance.
Larger sets of cards beat smaller sets of lower rank
A hierarchical order forms between the gelada females: each one surveys that of immediately lower rank, and does its utmost for keeping it far away from the male.

Alternatives:

with a lower rank
with a lower position

with lower-ranking

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when comparing the ranking of multiple items or individuals. It is often used in contexts where rankings are being compared.