Officer : (noun)
1: any person in the armed services who holds a position of
authority or command; "an officer is responsible for the
lives of his men" [syn: military officer]
2: someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who
holds a position of trust; "he is an officer of the
court"; "the club elected its officers for the coming
year" [syn: officeholder]
3: a member of a police force; "it was an accident, officer"
[syn: policeman, police officer]
4: 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: ship's officer]
(verb)
1: direct or command as an officer
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Officer : \Of"fi*cer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Officered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Officering.]
1. To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.
--Marshall.
2. To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments
officered the recruits.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Officer : \Of"fi*cer\, n. [F. officier. See Office, and cf.
Official, 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.'' --Shak.
2. (U. S. Mil.) Specifically, a commissioned officer, in
distinction from a warrant officer.
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 quard, prisoners, and
police of the post or camp.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Commission \Com*mis"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. commissio. See
Commit.]
1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of
perpetrating.
Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a
certain degree of hardness. --South.
2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a
trust shall be executed.
3. The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons;
a trust; a charge.
4. A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain
powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the
performance of certain duties.
Let him see our commission. --Shak.
5. A certificate conferring military or naval rank and
authority; as, a colonel's commission.
6. A company of persons joined in the performance of some
duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate
commerce commission.
A commission was at once appointed to examine into
the matter. --Prescott.
7. (Com.)
(a) The acting under authority of, or on account of,
another.
(b) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have
three commissions for the city.
(c) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent
for transacting business for another; as, a commission
of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array.
Commission of bankruptcy, a commission appointing and
empowering certain persons to examine into the facts
relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the
bankrupt's lands and effects for the creditors.
Commission of lunacy, a commission authorizing an inquiry
whether a person is a lunatic or not.
Commission merchant, one who buys or sells goods on
commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per
cent as his compensation.
Commission, or Commissioned, officer (Mil.), one who has
a commission, in distinction from a noncommissioned or
warrant officer.
Commission of the peace, a commission under the great seal,
constituting one or more persons justices of the peace.
[Eng.]
To put a vessel into commission (Naut.), to equip and man a
government vessel, and send it out on service after it has
been laid up; esp.,
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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