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Definition of Officer
Officer

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.

Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer.

To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.

To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.

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Officer Quotations

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
Zebulon Pike

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Horatio Nelson

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
Kamisese Mara

Only the Russian Cultural Officer was interested in my project.
Wolfgang Staudte

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.
Robert Mugabe

Officer Translations

officer in Danish is embedsmand, officer
officer in Dutch is officier
officer in Finnish is virkailija
officer in French is fonctionnaire, officier
officer in German is leitender Angestellter, Offizier, Beamter
officer in Italian is funzionario
officer in Spanish is funcionario


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