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COMMISSIONED NAVAL OFFICER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A commissioned officer in the navy
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("commissioned naval 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 naval officer"):
ensign (a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade)
captain; skipper (the naval officer in command of a military ship)
commander (a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain)
commodore (a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral)
flag officer (a senior naval officer above the rank of captain)
lieutenant (an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade)
lieutenant commander (a commissioned officer in the Navy ranking above a lieutenant and below a commander)
lieutenant JG; lieutenant junior grade (an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant and above ensign)
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