Lower-ranking in a sentence as an adjective

This is usually handled in large companies by moving the lower-ranking employee out of the management chain of the higher-ranking one.

The emergency medical procedure was to dump the lower-ranking dead body already in the portable body freezer, exsanguinate the corpse by opening the carotid arteries, and pump the circulatory system full of "cryoprotectant fluid".

Lower-ranking definitions

adjective

inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"

See also: junior-grade lowly secondary subaltern