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officer
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An officer is a member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority. Used without further detail, the term "officer" almost always refers to commissioned officers , the most senior portion of a force who derive authority from ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. direct or command as an officer
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "one who holds an office" (originally a high office), from Old French oficier "officer, official" (early 14c.), from Medieval Latin officarius "an officer," from Latin officium "a service, a duty" (see office ). The military sense is first recorded ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Officer \Of"fi*cer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Officered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Officering .] To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over. --Marshall. To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.
Usage examples of officer.
He asked, what officers would risk this event if the rioters themselves, or their abettors, were afterwards to sit as their judges?
A cardinal had just been created in Australia, and an officer of the Noble Guard had to be sent with the Ablegate to carry the biglietto and the skull-cap.
There were few officers aboard the Endymion who turned a blind eye, but when it came to a zealous pursuit of duty, the first lieutenant was the worst.
They will all have learned that we have a French officer aboard and be wondering how we, a privateer, came across him.
That was not what any man aboard, from officer to lowly waister, wanted to hear.
Two officers of the United States navy were walking abreast, unguarded and alone, not looking to the right or left, never frowning, never flinching, while the mob screamed in their ears, shook cocked pistols in their faces, cursed, crowded, and gnashed upon them.
But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
In those documents we find the abridgment of the existing right of suffrage and the denial to the people of all right to participate in the selection of public officers except the legislative boldly advocated, with labored arguments to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of all political evil.
In those documents we find the abridgment of the existing right of suffrage, and the denial to the people of all right to participate in the selection of public officers, except the legislature, boldly advocated, with labored argument to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of all political evil.
They were going to charge Abies with the murder of Deputy Marshal Bascombe, and Mellis with assault on a federal officer, while reserving future charges against twelve-year-old Judith.
The captain raised an arm and called over Academician Pael, First Officer Till, and Jeru, the commissary assigned to the ship.
The two officers thought that they ought to accede to the proposition, notwithstanding the decree of death which had been pronounced against the whole garrison, in consequence of the town being token by storm.
Other officers were standing by radar and radar altimeter, NST transceiver, drift indicator, accelerometer, and all the rest of it.
His accent was neutral, the nearly universal English of non-Russian officers in the CoDominium Service, and it marked his profession almost as certainly as did his posture and the tone of command.
The briefing officer had a thick accent, but it was German, not Spanish.