Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not having a commission. Abbreviated non-com.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not having a commission.
- adjective (Mil.) a subordinate officer not appointed by a commission from the chief executive or supreme authority of the State; but by the Secretary of War or by the commanding officer of the regiment.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
non-commissioned .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of military officers) appointed from enlisted personnel
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Examples
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If you will pick out those to whom you intend to give commands, and subcommands; I will choose from the men, after drilling them for a few days, forty of the most intelligent as what we call noncommissioned officers.
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The bomber is identified as a noncommissioned officer in the Iraqi army.
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In case a horse be cast, or in any way entangled, he will relieve him, if possible; if unable to relieve him, he will call the noncommissioned officer.
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They were later identified as noncommissioned officers Ali Kaya and Özcan İldeniz.
TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News ERCAN YAVUZ 2010
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They were later identified as noncommissioned officers Ali Kaya and Özcan İldeniz.
TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News ERCAN YAVUZ 2010
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They were later identified as noncommissioned officers Ali Kaya and Özcan İldeniz.
TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News ERCAN YAVUZ 2010
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With an almost physical pain, Jim recalled when the diminutive engineer had visited him while Jim sat in a military stockade for a month, serving time for assaulting a noncommissioned officer.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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Spohn is a retired Air Force noncommissioned officer who currently works as a civil servant at Eielson Air
The Right Stuff 2010
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His top noncommissioned officer, Command Sergeant Major Michael T. Hall, explained the decision to ban junk food on a coalition blog by writing: This is a war zone—not an amusement park.
Afghan Forces Eat Up Return of Fast Food Matthew Rosenberg 2011
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He later shows up in the equally devastating closing story, "Gold Star," to be pressed into telling a young widow how exactly her husband - a senior noncommissioned officer - was killed.
Set on an Army post, Fallon's tales of private pain are first-class Lily Burana 2011
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