Word Finder - sergeants

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UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.

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The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.

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A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.

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A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign.

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sergeant surgeon, i.e. a servant, or attendant, surgeon

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A fish, the cobia.

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Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the of the genus Athyma; distinguished from the false sergeants.

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A bailiff.

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A servant in monastic offices.

There are over 200 European officers, and over 300 European sergeants.

Two sergeants major were sitting with them and their campfire blazed brighter than others.

The force comprises 2 superintendents, 48 inspectors, 86 sergeants and 865 constables; also some 60 constables on private service duty.

The first "detectives" appointed numbered only a dozen, three inspectors and nine sergeants, to whom, however, six constables were shortly added as "auxiliaries," but the number was gradually enlarged as the manifest uses of the system became more and more obvious.

In Paris argot the men of these six central brigades are nicknamed "vaisseaux" (vessels), because they carry on their collars the badge of the city of Paris - an ancient ship - while the sergeants in the town districts wear only numbers, their own individual number, and that of the quarter in which they serve.

A military conspiracy like those of Berton or the sergeants of La Rochelle, seemed feasible to Napoleon.

Very shortly afterwards, another war minister, General Castillo, attempted to strike at the root of military insubordination, and simultaneously in every garrison of the kingdom the senior sergeants, more than 1000 in all, were given their discharge and ordered to start for their homes on the spot.

Spanish generals of pronunciamiento fame thought it perfectly logical and natural that sergeants.

The subdivision of the district into divisions, on much the same lines as now existing, was at once made for administrative convenience, and a proportion of officers way allotted to each in the various grades then first constituted and still preserved, comprising in ascending order, constables, sergeants, inspectors and superintendents.

Passing by her infantine recollections, which go back further than even those of Dickens, we find her at the age of three crossing the Pyrenees to join her father who was on Murat's staff, occupying with her parents a suite of rooms in the royal palace, adopted as the child of the regiment, nursed by rough old sergeants, and dressed in a complete suit of uniform to please the general.

The soldiers in their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up.

Squadron quartermaster sergeants wear four chevrons with rank badge, the whole surmounted by a crown.

To distinguish between the sergeants and the knights, the colors of their mantles were different.

Sergeants wore mantles of black, while the mantles of the knights were white.

The strength of the metropolitan police in 1908 was 18,167, comprising 32 superintendents, 572 inspectors, 2378 sergeants and 15,185 constables.

It included in 1910 a commissioner appointed by the mayor and exercising a wide range of authority; four deputy commissioners; a chief inspector, who has immediate charge of the force and through whom all orders are issued; he is assisted by 18 inspectors, who are in charge of different sections of the city, and who carry out the orders of the chief; 87 captains, each of whom is in direct charge of a precinct; 583 sergeants; and last of all, the ordinary policemen, or patrolmen, as they are often called from the character of their duties.