Word Finder - officer

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

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A respectful term of address for an officer, especially a police officer.

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One who holds a public office.

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

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A commissioned officer.

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To supply with officers.

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To command like an officer.

Officer David will see you now.

Officer Quint came from the scene of the accident.

Officer David gave her the same glare.

Hey, we've got an injured officer here.

He waited until the officer stepped outside.

She turned as an officer shoved a cell phone at her.

The officer began to write, but just as he finished the first word, a bomb came through the roof of the house and struck the floor close by him.

She woke several times briefly; once to see Len and an older officer with white hair talking in the hallway outside her cubicle in the emergency room.

As Jackson moved away, I heard him say to another officer, "Put a guard on him until we find out what happened."

The fiend who did that is still out there; the one who killed those children and police officer and God knows who else!

But the redheaded law officer was right.

The officer stared at her then held up an ID card with the boy's picture.

Later she received a telephone call from the Norfolk Police Department, but it only confirmed what Officer McCarthy had already told her.

Drinking on duty, Officer?

When he returned to the main room, Harrigan had left to talk to a class of grade-school children, a job at which he excelled, much to the pleasure of the others who shunned playing Officer Friendly.

He was of better education than most of his contemporaries, and had married a daughter of Colonel Seves the French non-commissioned officer who became Soliman Pasha under Mehemet Ali.

No person holding a lucrative office under the state or the United States, no salaried officer of a railroad company, and no officer of any court of record is eligible for membership in either house.

It was originally governed by the royal officer or actor dominicus, and down even to the close of the Empire it remained a purely imperial or royal town.

He was later appointed a general officer of the Confederacy, and assigned to the command of the Army of the Shenandoah, being opposed by the Federal army under Patterson.

So he gave one portion to the king's officer who had taught him to ride.

In a short time they reached Corinth in safety, and the king sent an officer to bring the captain and his men to the palace.

On one occasion, while walking on the Common with her, I saw a police officer taking a man to the station-house.

The two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike.

Officer Quint had gained four new friends.

You're a law officer.

William's Son, (HENRY) BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON (1757-1823), was an officer in the American War of Independence, and was an able lawyer and judge.

He walked away with his clipboard in hand, barking some orders at another officer.

I explained to Howie as I dialed the police officer's number.

Murphy? he called to a uniformed officer.

Dean tried to comfort her while complying with the officer's request.

Martha spat with a viciousness that shocked Dean as much as the officer.

That's assault of a police officer!

Bill asked the officer.

Too surprised to understand what exactly was happening, she obeyed the police officer's instructions to sit down and shut up and sat in the quiet police station reception area.

Corday never volunteered any information and when Dean asked him outright if Shipton was still alive, the officer ignored the question and changed the subject.

You were a police officer yourself.

Reluctantly, he agreed to waste his Sunday with Vinnie and learned from Sackler that a uniformed officer had delivered Vinnie's clothes earlier.

He was still searching and putting things back together when Officer Jack McCarty and his female partner Jenny Nachman arrived, with the doctor close on their heels.

Dean located Jonathan Winston and relat­ed what Fred had seen but it was clear the FBI officer doubted the identification and gave only a cursory nod and a promise to look into it.

Her birth itself was romantic. Her father was playing a country dance at the house of a fellow officer, the future husband of Sophie's sister, when he was told that his wife, who had not long left the room, had borne him a daughter.

He was the son of a general officer in the Sardinian army who was killed at the battle of Mondovi in 1796.

The real beginning of English equity is to be found in the custom of handing over to that officer, for adjudication, the complaints which were addressed to the king, praying for remedies beyond the reach of the common law.

When at Falta he had married Mrs Buchanan, the widow of an officer.

Zaminddrs, or government renters, were arrested on mesne process; the sanctity of the zendna, or women's chamber, as dear to Hindus as to Mahommedans, was violated by the sheriff's officer; the deepest feelings of the people and the entire fabric of revenue administration were alike disregarded.

The son and successor of Agesilaus II., reigned 360-338 B.C. During his father's later years he proved himself a brave and capable officer.

Each great personage had a major domus - the queen had hers, the king his; and since the royal house was called the palace, this officer took the name of "mayor of the palace."

The elder was not an officer inferior and subordinate to the bishop. The elder was a bishop. The two titles are applied to the same persons.

Boyd Alexander, a British officer, further explored the lake, which then contained few stretches of open water.

But a French officer, Jacques de Liniers, gathered together a large force with which he enclosed the British within the walls, and finally, on the 12th of August, by a successful assault, forced Beresford and his troops to surrender.

Foremost among the leaders of the revolutionary armies were Manuel Belgrano, and after March 1812 General Jose de San Martin, an officer who had gained experience against the French in the Peninsular War.