I can put in a word, if you like, maybe get her to give you an uprank discount.

If Khadaji had been an uprank, the boy would have been in trouble.

Horridopalpus is sometimes still included in Depressaria as a subgenus (namely by sources that uprank Depressariinae to full family status), but may be a far more distant relative.

Zelde changed its name to Kilimanjaro, But she'd been pushed uprank so fast-all the way from cargo to captain-that some of the crew wouldn't accept her in permanent command.

Anjue, the doorman, had studied the holoproj of every uprank over the level of Lojt and if one showed up, he or she was escorted to the head of the line and inside.