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Subofficer

Subofficer \Sub*of"fi*cer\, n. [Pref. sub + officer: cf. F. sous-officer.] An under or subordinate officer.

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subofficer

n. An under or subordinate officer.

Usage examples of "subofficer".

A good two hundred cubits short of the browned grasses that covered the ridge line ahead, grasses that hung limply in the morning light, Fornal slowed his mount, then nodded to the subofficer.

The subofficer on site provided coordinates, which Dysseen promptly entered into his headpiece.

There was a momentary flash of sapphire light, a faint smell of ozone, and a lingering but rapidly dissipating coil of pale blue vapor corkscrewing its way upward into nonexistence where an instant before the subofficer had been standing.

He wished he'd brought his water bottle from the cot, but he managed to gnaw off a corner of the cheese before he turned hack to the subofficers and swallowed before speaking.

Ears alert, Cerryl listened to the scattered comments of the officers and subofficers around the nearby fire.

Given this voluntary courtesy, he could not protest the fact that Tasido and his subofficers would be standing at his back.

He called encouragement to his subofficers, then faced forward, into the whip of the air, to mark their progress.

These will now be subofficers to Force Commander Lujan, and each will command a company.

Given thisvoluntary courtesy, he could not protest the fact that Tasidoand his subofficers would be standing at his back.

Urged along by their subofficers, they boarded the two waiting, whining craft with traditional Imperial speed and efficiency.

His quiet outrage had no effect on Dysseen and his attendant subofficers, but the recorded images that Nennasu recovered from the facility's security monitors did.

Waving it to a stop, he picked four two-comet subofficers from his own group to act as an escort, shooed them into the new craft along with the biped who entered without comment or protest.

As the orders were repeated by Alvar and the subofficers, he leaned toward Anna.

Under the watchful eyes of subofficers, armsmen stripped each corpse of weapons and valuables before lifting it onto the wagons.