Definition of Officer

1. Noun. Any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command. "An officer is responsible for the lives of his men"


2. Verb. Direct or command as an officer.
Generic synonyms: Command

3. Noun. Someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust. "The club elected its officers for the coming year"
Exact synonyms: Officeholder
Generic synonyms: Holder, Functionary, Official
Specialized synonyms: Probation Officer, Sergeant At Arms, Serjeant-at-arms

4. Noun. A member of a police force. "It was an accident, officer"

5. Noun. A person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel. "He is the officer in charge of the ship's engines"

Definition of Officer

1. n. 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.

2. v. t. To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.

Definition of Officer

1. Noun. One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations. ¹

2. Noun. One who holds a public office. ¹

3. Noun. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative. ¹

4. Noun. (colloquial military) A simple contraction of the term "commissioned officer." ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To supply with '''officers'''. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To command like an '''officer'''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Officer

1. to furnish with officers (persons holding positions of authority) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Officer

1. 1. 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. "I am an officer of state." 2. Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See Field, General. Etc. Officer of the day, the officer temporarily in charge on the deck of a vessel, especially. A war vessel. Origin: F. Officier. See Office, and cf. Official. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Officer

office management
office mate
office mates
office nursing
office staff
office visits
office wall
office walls
officeholder
officeholders
officeholding
officeless
officelike
officemate
officemates
officer (current term)
officer's mess
officer-involved shooting
officered
officeress
officering
officers
offices
officeseeker
officeseekers
officewall
officewalls
officewear
officewide
official

Literary usage of Officer

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The articles of war direct that whenever any officer shall be charged with a crime he shall be arrested and confined in his barracks, quarters or tent, ..."

2. The Lancet (1898)
"CM, DPH Aberd., has been appointed Medical officer of Health for the Burgh of ... Assistant Medical officer, unmarried. Salary commencing at £100 per annum, ..."

3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"officer may be removed without notice or hearing.1 This doctrine applies, however, where the office is held at the pleasure of the appointing power only; ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"But when the Legislature make» a contract with a public officer, ... was not a pub- Ut officer In such a sense as prevented his employment from creating a ..."

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