Definitions for officer
ˈɔ fə sər, ˈɒf ə-of·fi·cer

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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"

2. officeholder, officernoun

   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"

3. policeman, police officer, officernoun

   a member of a police force

   "it was an accident, officer"

4. officer, ship's officerverb

   a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel

   "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines"

5. officerverb

   direct or command as an officer

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. officernoun

   One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.

   Etymology: From officer, officier, from officiarius, from officium + -arius.

2. officernoun

   One who holds a public office.

   Etymology: From officer, officier, from officiarius, from officium + -arius.

3. officernoun

   An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.

   Etymology: From officer, officier, from officiarius, from officium + -arius.

4. officernoun

   A simple contraction of the term "commissioned officer."

   Etymology: From officer, officier, from officiarius, from officium + -arius.

5. officerverb

   To supply with officers.

   Etymology: From officer, officier, from officiarius, from officium + -arius.

6. officerverb

   To command like an officer.

   Etymology: From officer, officier, from officiarius, from officium + -arius.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. officer

   A person having some command. A term applied both in the royal and mercantile navies to any one of a ship's company who ranks above the fore-mast men.

Matched Categories

1. • Command
   • Holder
   • Official

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'officer' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1150

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'officer' in Written Corpus Frequency: #975

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'officer' in Nouns Frequency: #210

How to pronounce officer?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say officer in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of officer in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of officer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of officer in a Sentence

1. Police George Kral:

   I'm sad to say that Officer Brandon Stalker was struck once and has passed away.

2. Patrick Lynch:

   Officer Daniel Pantaleo's a model of what we want a police officer to be, officer Daniel Pantaleo's a mature, mature police officer, motivated by serving the community. Officer Daniel Pantaleo literally is Officer Daniel Pantaleo.

3. Harry Dunn:

   The Black officer struggle was different as in, like I said, we fought against not just people that were, that hated what we represented, but they hate our skin color also, the Black officer struggle's just The Black officer struggle, and they used those words to prove The Black officer struggle. They showed that they hated us and they hated our skin color.

4. Randy Sutton:

   Someone’s home can be a dangerous place to be for a police officer.

5. Ilaan Maazel:

   In both cases there was no special prosecutor investigating the police, and I think that's a problem, police have a hard job but it's so important that when a police officer violates the law that he's held accountable.

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