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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

... represented in the tea-leaves. I was looking into my tea-cup one day, when I saw most clearly depicted two natives creeping stealthily, their attitude making this evident. In their hands were what appeared to be knives, and they were making towards a figure that was unmistakably that of an officer. He was standing upon what looked like a raised platform with a barricade round him. He held ...

— Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves • Cicely Kent

... subscriptions for the restoration of the Holy Sepulchre, he at once attached himself to him in the capacity of interpreter. In this position he remained for a few weeks, until the French minister at Soleure took him away from the Greek monk, and despatched him to Paris to be the attendant of a young officer.[62] A few days in the famous city, which he now saw for the first time, and which disappointed his expectations just as the sea and all other wonders disappointed them,[63] convinced him that here was not what he sought, and he again turned his face southwards ...

— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

... when the Yankees came through. Mat Holmes had run away with the ball and chain on him and was in the woods then. He hid out staying with us at night until August. Then my mother took him to the Yankee garrison at Fayetteville. A Yankee officer then took him to a black smith shop and had the ball and chain cut off his leg. The marsters would tell the slaves to go to work that they were not free, that they still belonged to them, but one would drop out and leave, then another. There ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States • Various

... coasts, he first boldly entered Cadiz, in almost complete disregard of the puny galleys guarding the harbor, and destroyed some 37 vessels and their cargoes. Despite the horrified protests of his Vice Admiral Borough (an officer "of the old school" to be found in every epoch) at these violations of traditional methods, he then took up a position off Saigres where he could harry coastwise commerce, picked up the East Indiaman ...

— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott

... she wanted to keep him then." Mrs. Blair's tones were mysteriously, ironically significant. "Leila wasn't throwing herself away on any young officer—with nothing but his insurance. It was Bobby Martin that ...

— The Innocent Adventuress • Mary Hastings Bradley

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