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noncommissioned
Word definitions for noncommissioned in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of non-commissioned English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of military officers; appointed from enlisted personnel [ant: commissioned ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Noncommissioned \Non`com*mis"sioned\, a. Not having a commission. Noncommissioned officer (Mil.), a subordinate officer not appointed by a commission from the chief executive or supreme authority of the State; but by the Secretary of War or by the commanding ...
Usage examples of noncommissioned.
Breckinridge, on behalf of the noncommissioned officers, I want to apologize for this breach of discipline, and assure you the regiment will be punished for this discourtesy to a guest of the colonel.
From the hand-blasters carried by officers and senior noncommissioned officers all the way to the Raptors flown by fighter pilots, the Marines were more lethally armed than any force they were likely to come up against.
He even had the impudence to claim that he and his secretary had been sitting at a table in that room, drinking wine, not fifteen minutes before, when there had been four noncommissioned officers of the Third Uhlans at that table since noon.
Sergeant Major Noah Breckenridge was the image of the Marine noncommissioned officer.
Despite Mzepps' appearance, though, the Lizard soon struck him as a typical noncommissioned officer: worried about his job, but not much about how it fit into the bigger picture.
And you know the old maxim--rely on your noncommissioned officers and you'll never get a bum steer.
I was a chapter head in the League, sort of a noncommissioned officer.
The specific charges are violation of Articles Eight and Seventy-two of the Uniform Code of Military Justice: disobedience of a lawful order, and conduct unbecoming a noncommissioned officer.
That is to assign senior noncommissioned officers to fill the billets of commissioned officers on a permanent basis.
Platoon sergeants, battalion staff NCOs and first sergeants, the senior noncommissioned officers, had quarters on one side of the area and the platoon leaders, company commanders and battalion staff had quarters on the other.
An old, noncommissioned officer ran out of the ranks and taking him by the elbow dragged him to his company.
And many of them are going to come from the noncommissioned officer corps.
Corporal Kerr was a Marine noncommissioned officer, a leader of men.
He turned and saw that he'd been joined by a fellow noncommissioned officer of The United States Marine Corps, Staff Sergeant Howard H.
In the Federal army, their appearance would have given apoplexy to any noncommissioned officer worth his stripes.