Definitions for officer

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officer of·fi·cer

Spelling: [aw-fuh-ser, of-uh-]

IPA: /ˈɔ fə sər, ˈɒf ə-/

Officer is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in officer (ceffior).

Definitions for officer

noun

1. a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
2. a member of a police department or a constable.
3. a person licensed to take full or partial responsibility for the operation of a merchant ship or other large civilian ship; a master or mate.
4. a person appointed or elected to some position of responsibility or authority in the government, a corporation, a society, etc.
5. (in some honorary orders) a member of any rank except the lowest.
6. Obsolete. an agent.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with officers.
2. to command or direct as an officer does.
3. to direct, conduct, or manage.

Origin of officer

1275-1325; Middle English Anglo-French; Middle French officier Medieval Latin officiārius, equivalent to Latin offici(um) office + -ārius -ary

Examples for officer

That officer believed my fair-skinned son was white, according to the traffic citation I examined.

"You shall hear from me, sir," said the officer, biting his lips.

A party of sailors, headed by an officer, came out of the woods, and headed for the shore.

There is an officer in this regiment of the name of Chatterton?

The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.

In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.

A street sweeper was caught in the crossfire as a gunman fired at the officer, fatally wounding her in the back.

That officer fretting about his “stance,” we learn, is plagued by PTSD that cripples him both on the job and at home.

Four men returned to bear off their officer, but all four shared his fate.

All I ask, said Stokes, is to be laid by that officer that I may die in his presence.