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COMMISSIONED MILITARY OFFICER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("commissioned military officer" is a kind of...):
commissioned officer (a military officer holding a commission)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commissioned military officer"):
captain (an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant)
colonel (a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general)
field-grade officer; field officer; FO (an officer holding the rank of major or lieutenant colonel or colonel)
general officer (officers in the Army or Air Force or Marines above the rank of colonel)
lieutenant (a commissioned military officer)
major (a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain)
marshal; marshall ((in some countries) a military officer of highest rank)
subaltern (a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain)
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