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English

image:Swedish officer.jpg|thumb|a [[military officer]]

Etymology

From , , from {{term|officiarius||official}}, from {{term|officium||office}} + {{term|-arius|-ārius|-er}}.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈɒfɪsə/
  • IPA: /ˈɑfəsəɻ/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-officer.ogg


Noun

  1. One who has a position of authority in a hierarchy|hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
  2. One who holds a public office.
  3. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
  4. In the Context of A simple contraction of the term "commissioned officer."


Translations

  • Albanian: 1. oficer; 2. nënpunës
  • Arabic:
  • Chinese: 官员 (guānyuán)
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|officier|m}}
  • Finnish: ,
  • French: {{t+|fr|officier|m}}
  • German: {{t|de|Offizier|m}}
  • Hebrew: {{t|he|קצין|m|tr=katzin|sc=Hebr}}
  • Hungarian: rendőr (1); tiszt (2)
  • Italian: {{t+|it|agente|m}}, {{t+|it|ufficiale|m}}
  • Japanese: 役人 (やくにん, yakunin)
  • Korean: {{t|ko|장교|tr=janggyo|sc=Hang}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|oficial|m}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|офицер|m|tr=ofitsér|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Serbian: часник (časnik)
  • Spanish: {{tr|es|oficial|m}}
  • Swedish: {{tr|sv|officer|c}}

Verb

  1. To supply with officers.
  2. To command like an officer.


Synonyms


Translations

  • Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|chỉ huy|xs=Vietnamese}}

Related terms


fa:officer fr:officer io:officer it:officer ku:officer hu:officer ja:officer ru:officer fi:officer sv:officer ta:officer te:officer vi:officer tr:officer zh:officer

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]

2. To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments
officered the recruits.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]

2. (U. S. Mil.) Specifically, a commissioned officer, in
distinction from a warrant officer or an enlisted man.
[1913 Webster]

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 guard, prisoners, and
police of the post or camp; abbreviated O. D., OD, or O.
O. D.

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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet officer
n 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]
v : direct or command as an officer
Moby Dictionary
ADC , CO , G-man , John Law , MP , OD , administrator , aide ,
aide-de-camp , apparatchik , archon , bailiff , beadle , beagle ,
boatswain , bound bailiff , brigadier , brigadier general , bureaucrat ,
captain , catchpole , chancellor , chicken colonel , chief engineer ,
chief executive , chief executive officer , chief mate ,
chief of police , chief of staff , civil servant , colonel ,
commandant , commander , commander in chief , commanding officer ,
commissioned officer , commissioner , company officer , constable ,
cop , copper , dean , deck officer , deputy , deputy sheriff , detective ,
dick , dignitary , director , exec , executive , executive director ,
executive officer , executive secretary , fed , federal ,
field marshal , field officer , first lieutenant , five-star general ,
flic , four-star general , functionary , functionnaire , fuzz ,
gendarme , general , general officer , generalissimo , government man ,
inspector , jack-in-office , jemadar , junior officer , lawman , lictor ,
lieutenant , lieutenant colonel , lieutenant general , mace-bearer ,
magistrate , major , major general , management , manager ,
managing director , mandarin , marechal , marshal , master , mate ,
mounted policeman , narc , naval officer , navigating officer ,
navigator , office-bearer , officeholder , official , officiary ,
one-star general , orderly officer , patrolman , patron ,
peace officer , petty tyrant , pipes , placeman , police ,
police captain , police commissioner , police constable ,
police inspector , police matron , police officer , police sergeant ,
policeman , policewoman , portreeve , prefect , president , prexy ,
provost , public official , public servant , quartermaster ,
red-tapist , reeve , risaldar , roundsman , sailing master ,
second mate , secretary , senior officer , sergeant , sergeant at arms ,
shavetail , sheriff , shipmaster , sirdar , skipper , staff officer ,
subahdar , subaltern , sublieutenant , superintendent , tec ,
the Old Man , the administration , the brass , three-star general ,
tipstaff , tipstaves , top brass , treasurer , trooper ,
two-star general , vice-chancellor , vice-president , warden ,
watch officer


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