COMMISSIONED OFFICER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commissioned officer mean? 

• COMMISSIONED OFFICER (noun)
  The noun COMMISSIONED OFFICER has 1 sense:

1. a military officer holding a commission

  Familiarity information: COMMISSIONED OFFICER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMISSIONED OFFICER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military officer holding a commission

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("commissioned officer" is a kind of...):

military officer; officer (any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commissioned officer"):

commissioned military officer (a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps)

commissioned naval officer (a commissioned officer in the navy)

judge advocate (an officer assigned to the judge advocate general)

judge advocate general (the senior legal advisor to a branch of the military)

line officer (a commissioned officer with combat units (not a staff officer or a supply officer))

ranker (a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status)

staff officer (a commissioned officer assigned to a military commander's staff)

supply officer (a commissioned officer responsible for logistics)

 Context examples 

And a non-commissioned officer.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)