air force officer
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2.7
- noun
- /ɛr fɔrs ˈɔfɪsər/
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oficial de la fuerza aérea
- During the ceremony, the president honored the brave air force officer for his distinguished service to the country.
And the this MRI was taken of an Air Force officer who had been ordered on combat air patrol to fire missiles at one of these UFOs.
- And the this MRI was taken of an Air Force officer who had been ordered on combat air patrol to fire missiles at one of these UFOs.
Examples
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Zhikharev's statement follows a protracted exchange in the media between senior air force officers, including himself, and Rogozin, who has special responsibility for the arms industry, over what shape PAK-DA should take.
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Without tanks, armor, or heavy arms to take and hold key installations, the air force officers' forces were quite easily crushed by the superior power of the loyal army.
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In 1991, two Korean navy and air force officers joined the Japanese staff college for training.
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In Kenya, for example, a group of lower-ranking air force officers led a coup attempt in August 1982 that scored some initial successes.
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And the this MRI was taken of an Air Force officer who had been ordered on combat air patrol to fire missiles at one of these UFOs.
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For instance, army officers had significantly different attitudes when compared to those of naval and air force officers; administrative officers differed from combat and technical officers; and especially, young officers differed from older officers.
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The inadequacy of the air force officers' planning was also shown by their failure to attack the transmitting facilities of the radio station in addition to the studios, where someone loyal to the government soon pulled the plug and stopped all transmitting.
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Its leaders assumed that the air force could accomplish many of its objectives single-handedly—a classic mistake, and one probably connected in this case to the fact that Israel's chief of staff, Dan Halutz, is himself an air force officer.
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Thus, an air force officer on board the JSTARS aircraft was able to select a high-value ground target detected by JSTARS and transmit its coordinates directly to the closest strike aircraft indicated by AWACS data.
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In a narrative mentioned above, Abu Muhammed Abdullah Yousef says that he encountered Islam when he left the United Kingdom in 1976 for a Muslim country to teach electronics to commissioned and noncommissioned air force officers.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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2.4
A person in the army, navy, or air force who gives orders
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3.2
A person in charge of soldiers who gives orders and leads them
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3.6
A member of the military who has power from the government to give orders
A person in the military who has official rank and command
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a commissioned officer serving in the air force' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'air' + 'force' to form the military branch 'air force' and adding 'officer' to indicate a person holding rank in that branch. This is a straightforward noun-compounding pattern found across many languages and follows standard English composition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Air force officer comes from two simple parts: the air force is the part of the military that uses planes and the officer is a person with official rank who leads others, so picture a uniformed leader on a runway giving orders. So, an air force officer means 'a leader with official rank who serves in a country's air force'.