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/ˈɔfəsər/ /ˈɔfɪsər/ Listen

noun

Officer n.

1.

One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer. "I am an officer of state."

2.

(U. S. Mil.) Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer or an enlisted man.

Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc.

Officer of the day (Mil.), the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the guard, prisoners, and police of the post or camp; abbreviated O. D., OD, or O. O. D.

Officer of the deck, or Officer of the watch (Naut.), the officer temporarily in charge on the deck of a vessel, esp. a war vessel.

verb

Officer v. t. (past & past part. officered; pres. part. officering)

1.

To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.

2.

To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.

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Etymology of 'Officer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Officer" Quotes from Famous Books

... few seconds Lieutenant Gordan, the regular army officer at the academy, came marching briskly down the street in the dusk, his face so red that it almost seemed to glow like a light. Stopping short in front of the lone plebe, ...

— Frank Merriwell's Chums • Burt L. Standish

... me keep out of the way, for I walk slow and hate a bustle; but the house was all hurry-skurry, preparing for my new master. Sir Murtagh, I forgot to notice, had no childer;[4] so the Rackrent estate went to his younger brother, a young dashing officer, who came amongst us before I knew for the life of me where-abouts I was, in a gig or some of them things, with another spark along with him, and led horses, and servants, and dogs, and scarce a place to put any Christian of ...

— Tales and Novels, Vol. IV • Maria Edgeworth

... don't let me catch you at it again. Here's an old lazy hound behind you who knows very well that it is his duty, and I shall take that stripe off your arm if I catch you at this job again." Of course, as a non-commissioned officer, I took the warning to heart, and kept to my own duties for the future—the warning having taken effect with the old soldiers ...

— Adventures and Recollections • Bill o'th' Hoylus End

... conditions defined by law. Thus, pedigrees and genealogies became a family necessity; but since private claims might be doubted, and the question of authenticity involved such important results, a responsible public officer was appointed to keep the records by which all claims were decided. Each king had his own recorder, who was obliged to keep a true account of his pedigree, and also of the pedigrees of the provincial kings and of their principal chieftains. The provincial kings had ...

— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack

... son of an English officer, who, making a tour in the States, had fallen in love with and won the hand of Winifred Cornish, a Virginia heiress, and one of the belles of Richmond. After the marriage he had taken her to visit his family in England; but she had not been there many weeks ...

— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty

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