warrant officer
2
6.5
- noun
- /ˈwɔːrənt ˈɔːfɪsər/
:
oficial de orden
- I read the comments rules and the link about what it means to be a warrant officer.
- chief warrant officer
- Army warrant officer
- retired warrant officer
So junior to mid grade warrant officers.
- So junior to mid grade warrant officers.
- So the Warrant Officer called me up down at SEAL Team One and said, hey, hey, I'm back.
- He needed to stay home and then anyhow, so he ended up becoming a Warrant Officer and then a Chinook pilot in the Army reserves.
Examples
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As a warrant officer, she was entrusted with important leadership duties in the military.
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Warrant Officer James was responsible for training new recruits in the Army.
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I was a warrant officer in the Irish Guards.
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So the Warrant Officer called me up down at SEAL Team One and said, hey, hey, I'm back.
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One of the men in the group, a warrant officer named Vickery, has already seen the movie the previous night.
Academic text (1993) -
Well, your warrant officer turned in his retirement papers, and you've been moved up.
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He needed to stay home and then anyhow, so he ended up becoming a Warrant Officer and then a Chinook pilot in the Army reserves.
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Uh, my name is Sam Chisolm, and, uh, I'm a duly sworn warrant officer in Wichita, Kansas.
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The warrant officer oversaw the logistics of the mission, ensuring all supplies were in place.
Synonyms
∞
2.4
A person in the army, navy, or air force who gives orders
38
3.2
A person in charge of soldiers who gives orders and leads them
How Senior
247
2.9
- Specialized
614
5.8
2
6.5
422
3.9
- Specialized
450
4.3
76
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
warrant + officer
Although 'officer' is transparent, 'warrant' is a relatively rare/technical word (and absent from the provided dictionary entry) and the compound refers to a specific military rank rather than a straightforward 'officer with a warrant'. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words might guess it denotes some kind of officer but would not reliably derive the exact rank/status or hierarchical position without prior exposure. Cross-linguistically this rank is often expressed with distinct terms, so the relation is only partially predictable.
Etymology
Warrant officer comes from a time when a soldier was given a written warrant, a paper that gave them official power but not a full officer's rank. Picture someone holding that paper—an officer who is above regular soldiers but below the higher officers—so the term means a rank between enlisted people and full officers.