Definition of officer

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Officer (n.) 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..

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Array :: Array (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause..
Devolve :: Devolve (v. i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank..
Magistrate :: Magistrate (n.) A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it..
Captain :: Captain (n.) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army..
Register :: Register (n.) One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of deeds..
Cadre :: Cadre (n.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
Appointment :: Appointment (n.) Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords..
Company :: Company (n.) The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company..
General :: General (a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal..
Division :: Division (n.) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.
Bathorse :: Bathorse (n.) A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.
Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The report of the act made by the proper officers.
Reformado :: Reformado (v. t.) An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay..
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.
Federal :: Federal (a.) Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer..
Subtreasuries :: Subtreasurer (n.) The public officer who has charge of a subtreasury.
Sealer :: Sealer (n.) One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like..
Reve :: Reve (n.) An officer, steward, or governor..
Proxene :: Proxene (n.) An officer who had the charge of showing hospitality to those who came from a friendly city or state.
Subligation :: Sublieutenant (n.) An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank..
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