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 officer of the regiment.
Wiktionary
alt. A person of authority in the military who has not received a commission (a direct conveyance of authority from the sovereign government); as such they can have charge or control but not command in the most technical use of the word. n. A person of authority in the military who has not received a commission (a direct conveyance of authority from the sovereign government); as such they can have charge or control but not command in the most technical use of the word.
WordNet
n. a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel [syn: noncom]
Usage examples of "noncommissioned officer".
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.
The chief petty officer who rode herd on the shuttle craft might be station personnel, but he was still a navy noncommissioned officer.
Article 32A(1) (b) of the Confederation Armed Forces Uniform Code of Military Justice, Conduct Unbecoming a Noncommissioned Officer.
When they put him before a General Court-martial charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon upon the person of a superior noncommissioned officer, Ev-erly decided that the other shoe had dropped, the good times were over, and he was going to spend the next ten or fifteen years in the Portsmouth Naval Prison.