What does military officer mean?

Definitions for military officer
mil·i·ta·ry of·fi·cer

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. military officer, officernoun

    any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command

    "an officer is responsible for the lives of his men"

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  1. military officer

    A military officer is a high-ranking member in the armed forces who holds a position of authority, obtained through a commission from the head of state. They are responsible for planning strategies, leading military operations, training soldiers, maintaining discipline, making decisions, and overseeing enlisted personnel. Military officers serve in various branches of the military such as the army, navy, air force, marines, or coast guard. Their ranks and duties vary widely depending on their military branch and country.

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  1. Military Officer

    An officer is a member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority. Commissioned officers derive authority directly from a sovereign power and, as such, hold a commission charging them with the duties and responsibilities of a specific office or position. Commissioned officers are typically the only persons, in an armed forces environment, able to act as the commanding officer of a military unit. A superior officer is an officer with a higher rank than another officer, who is a subordinate officer relative to the superior. Non-commissioned officers in positions of authority can be said to have control or charge rather than command per se; the use of the word "command" to describe any use of authority is often unofficial. Having officers is one requirement for combatant status under the laws of war, though these officers need not have obtained an official commission or warrant. In such case, those persons holding offices of responsibility within the organization are deemed to be the officers, and the presence of these officers connotes a level of organization sufficient to designate a group as being combatant.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of military officer in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of military officer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of military officer in a Sentence

  1. Matthew Borowski:

    The board of immigration disagreed with the immigration judge and held that the Taliban is a de facto government in Afghanistan and that they exert power over large portions of the country, the danger that my client faces is not merely because he is a military officer but because he has an imputed position of being pro-Western because he attended training in the United States.

  2. Jason Chaffetz:

    As a former military officer, you simply cannot take money from Russia, Turkey or anybody else. And it appears as if he did take that money. It was inappropriate. And there are repercussions for the violation of law.

  3. William McRaven:

    It was a difficult decision... to announce that I was voting. Obviously, you know, as a senior retired military officer these are challenging times and there's a little bit of an unwritten rule that senior officers don't come out and endorse a candidate.

  4. Mark Kirk:

    For Tom Cotton, a decorated military officer, to accuse him of treason is way over the top.

  5. Muhammadu Buhari:

    It's a question of security. Whether I was a former military officer or a politician through and through, when there is insecurity of this scale in the country, that takes the priority.

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