Definition of Flag officer

1. Noun. A senior naval officer above the rank of captain.


Definition of Flag officer

1. Noun. A naval officer with the rank of rear admiral or above, such officers are entitled to fly a personal flag, especially on the flagship. ¹

2. Noun. (''US military'', informal) In addition to naval officers of Navy and the Coast Guard, a general officer in the Army, Marines, or Air Force with the rank of brigadier general or higher. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flag Officer

flag-bearer
flag-burning
flag-waver
flag-waving(a)
flag captain
flag captains
flag carrier
flag carriers
flag complex
flag days
flag down
flag flap
flag football
flag of convenience
flag of truce
flag officer
flag officers
flag pole
flag poles
flag rank
flag ranks
flag sign
flag smut
flag smut fungus
flag stop
flag stops
flag waving
flagbearer
flagbearers

Literary usage of Flag officer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1908)
"The chief of staff, flag lieutenant, clerk, and aids shall constitute the personal staff of a flag officer. "Sec. 344. (1) A flag officer, when ordered to a ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"2dly, That a flag-officer, com- "to his own use the said l-8th of the prizes taken by the ships and vessels " mander-in-chief, where there is but one ..."

3. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"And when Lord St. Vincent, a flag officer, commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, returned to England by leave of the admiralty, for the recovery of his ..."

4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Formerly the captain of a flagship was called a " flag-officer. ... Flag-officer. Either an admiral, vice-admiral, rear-admiral, or commodore. ..."

5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"When the Flag-Officer was disabled, the command of the Virginia devolved upon her executive and ... The terms of commendation used by the Flag- Officer, ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Henry Blackstone, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1827)
"flag-officer is sent out to re-inforce a superior flag-officer tit , ~ " Jamaica or elsewhere, the superior flag-officer shall have no ..."

7. History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the by John Thomas Scharf (1894)
""Flag-officer Tatnall ordered the anchor of the Savannah hove up when the enemy had advanced to within a mile and a half of him, and steaming up to ward ..."

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