Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who holds an office of authority or trust in an organization, such as a corporation or government.
- noun One who holds a commission in the armed forces.
- noun A person licensed in the merchant marine as master, mate, chief engineer, or assistant engineer.
- noun A police officer.
- transitive verb To furnish with officers.
- transitive verb To command or manage as an officer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To minister; be of service.
- To furnish with officers; appoint officers over.
- To serve as officers for.
- noun One who holds an office, or to whom has been intrusted a share in the management or direction of some business or undertaking, such as a society, corporation, company, etc., or who fills some position involving responsibility, to which he has been formally appointed.
- noun Specifically, a person holding a public office, under a national, state, or municipal government, and authorized thereby to exercise some specific function: as, an officer of the Treasury Department; a custom-house or excise officer; law officers; a court officer.
- noun Used absolutely: One who holds a commission in the army or navy.
- noun In the law of corporations, one who holds an office, such as a director or cashier, as distinguished from one who is an employee, as a bookkeeper.
- noun A policeman, constable, or beadle.
- noun In some honorary orders, a member of higher rank than the lowest; in the Legion of Honor, the degree next higher than that of chevalier or knight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.
- transitive verb To command as an officer.
- noun One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical
- noun (U. S. Mil.) Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer or an enlisted man.
- noun etc. See under
Field ,General . etc. - noun (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.
- noun (Naut.) the officer temporarily in charge on the deck of a vessel, esp. a war vessel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who has a position of
authority in ahierarchical organization , especially inmilitary ,police orgovernment organizations. - noun One who holds a
public office. - noun An
agent orservant imparted with theability , to some degree, to act oninitiative . - noun colloquial, military A simple contraction of the term "
commissioned officer." - verb transitive To
supply with officers. - verb transitive To
command like an officer.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel
- verb direct or command as an officer
- noun any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command
- noun a member of a police force
- noun someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If, not losing that by which he is an officer, in the one case the King would appoint him an official, in the other case not, then is what we earlier called an ˜officer™ indeed an
School of Names Fraser, Chris 2005
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They arrested a servant of mine for a street quarrel with an officer (they drew upon one another knives and pistols), but as _the officer_ was out of uniform, and in the _wrong_ besides, on my protesting stoutly, he was released.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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The term officer of the court does not make an attorney equivalent to a judge or other actual employee of the state.
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The term officer of the court does not make an attorney equivalent to a judge or other actual employee of the state.
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The title officer — a woman about my age — began, as most people do, by exchanging pleasantries:
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The day we closed the re-fi on our house, I told the title officer that I was writing a piece on the decision not to have kids.
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The only way he can legally stay in officer is if there is an amendment to the constitution which changes the number of terms of presidency.
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If you have a complicated transaction, a title officer will give you information you need to complete the transaction.
Nothing Down for the 2000s Robert G. Allen 2004
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Tar and feather anyone with the title officer from any council.
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There is no need for anyone who is not a professional to learn them, but the reason those professionals exist is so that you don't have to know what they know - and that runs true for everyone from the escrow officer to the title officer to the agent, and trying to shortcut the process is a recipe for disaster.
Searchlight Crusade 2009
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