commissioned military officer
- noun
- /kəˈmɪʃənd ˈmɪlɪtɛri ˈɔfɪsər/
- Specialized
:
oficial comisionado
- After completing rigorous training, he became a commissioned military officer, ready to serve his country.
Examples
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As a commissioned military officer, she was responsible for leading her unit during training exercises.
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The government recruits commissioned military officers to oversee operations and ensure strategic goals are met.
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The Court rightly concluded that it had been settled by history and practice that the duty of serving as a military judge and meting out military discipline was germane to the ordinary and accepted duties of all commissioned military officers.
Academic text (2006)
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
Antonyms
- Specialized
A military officer promoted from regular soldiers instead of joining as a new officer
Surface Forms
Morphology
commissioned + military + officer
The phrase is fully compositional: 'commissioned' describes the type of 'officer' (one who holds a commission) and 'military' simply specifies the armed forces domain, so the overall meaning follows directly from the parts. This structure and concept (an officer holding a formal commission) is common across languages and standard in English, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Commissioned military officer comes from the old practice of giving a written commission, a formal 'order', to an officer when a ruler or government gave them the right to lead. So, a commissioned military officer is someone who has that formal 'authority' to command.