WordNet
n. a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel; "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines" [syn: officer]
Usage examples of "ship's officer".
We had refused to obey the orders of our superior officer, and I, at any rate, had threatened him and a ship's officer with my rifle.
I was the ship's officer at hand, so Nick asked me to relieve my Captain.
Only when ash began to drift down from the ceiling did Piggy glance up, there to see what was left of another ship's officer.
Then get him into one of your uniforms and instruct him to the extent you can in the time available on how to conduct himself as a ship's officer of the Enterprise.
No passenger was to climb the rigging without permission of a ship's officer.
I have every bit of math a ship's officer needs, and I know all the history that really applies-up to when we left Earth, anyway.
The other surviving man, a ship's officer, dying slowly, bleeding through his uniform tatters, saw what Hemphill was doing in the wreckage, and drifted in front of him interferingly.
One of them reminded Wednesday of Steffi so much that she blinked, overtaken by an urge to say hello to the friendly ship's officer.
Were the people letting off steam, or were they honestly happy about one of them taking down a ship's officer?
Tracy brushed past them, showed her passport to a ship's officer at the gangplank, and walked up onto the ship.
And in the distance there were a ship's officer and an old woman sitting on a grand piano.
Yet here he was still, given a distasteful order whose wisdom he doubted, and doing his best to carry it out as a proper ship's officer.
She treated him like a valuable ship's officer, respected him for his knowledge and his ability to command men.
She wanted Brashen to respect her as a fully capable sailor and ship's officer.