senior officer

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• senior

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• Senior

  ·noun An aged person; an <<Older>>. II. Senior ·noun A person who is older than another; one more a...

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• Officer

  ·vt To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over. II. Officer ·noun Specifically, a commissio...

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• officer

  A person having some command. A term applied both in the royal and mercantile navies to any one of a...

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• Officer

  It is obvious that most, if not all, of the Hebrew words rendered "officer" are either of an indefin...

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• marine officer

  An empty bottle: marine officers being held useless by the seamen. SEA WIT. ...

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• officer plant

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• chief officer

  See chief mate ...

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• crack officer

  One of the best class. ...

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• flag-officer

  A term synonymous with admiral. ...

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• marine officer

  An officer of the Royal Marines. Jocularly and witlessly applied to an empty bottle, as being "usele...

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• naval officer

  One belonging to the royal navy. Also, the person in charge of the stores in a royal dockyard abroad...

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• orderly officer

  In the army. See officer of the day. ...

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• petty officer

  A divisional seaman of the first class, ranking with a sergeant or corporal. ...

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• second officer

  Second mate in merchantmen. ...

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• signal-officer

  In a repeating frigate, a signal-midshipman; in a flag-ship, a flag-lieutenant. ...

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• staff-officer

  On the general staff of the army, or of a combined force. See staff. ...

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• warrant-officer

  Generally one holding his situation from particular boards, or persons authorized by the sovereign t...

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• Senior, Nassau William

  (1790-1864) Economist and essayist, s. of a clergyman, was b. at Compton Beauchamp, Berks, ed. at E...

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• officer of the day

  A military officer whose immediate duty is to attend to the interior economy of the corps to which h...

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• officer of the watch

  The lieutenant or other officer who has charge of, and commands, the watch. ...

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• top the officer, to

  To arrogate superiority. ...

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