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- noun Plural form of
officer .
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Examples
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In this way was discovered the Monarchist plot led by former Duma-member Purishkevitch and a group of nobles and officers, who had planned an officers uprising, and had written a letter inviting Kaledin to Petrograd.
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Nearly all these officers are detached from their several regiments and corps, thus injuring the efficiency of regiments and companies; and we have in our service, by this absurd mode of supplying the defects of our system of organization by brevet rank, the anomaly of _officers being generals, and at the same time not generals; of holding certain ranks and grades, and yet not holding these ranks and grades!
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a citizen of such free city or town were called _municipal rights_, and its officers were called _municipal officers_.
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I suppose the term officers, includes general as well as regimental officers.
Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829
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I suppose the term officers, includes general as well as regimental officers.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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I suppose the term officers, includes general as well as regimental officers.
Letters 1760
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During a term officers should receive a stipend equal to %200 of their salary from the previous year.
Egypt: After the revolution, the ballot box | Observer editorial 2011
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There is a local range run by the police dapartment, where they train officers, that is also open to the public.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Changes in the Gun Culture over the last 25 years 2010
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And the training of the officers is a much more complicated matter than the training of the men.
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During a term officers should receive a stipend equal to %200 of their salary from the previous year.
The Guardian World News David Batty 2011
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