commissioned officer
3
3.6
- noun
- /kəˈmɪʃənd ˈɔfɪsər/
- Specialized
:
oficial comisionado
- The U.S. military services thus remained a "citizens' army," and the officer corps included a large and influential complement of mobilized reserve officers and newly commissioned officers from the conscript army.
Examples
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My father went to Manchuria in 1934, a commissioned officer in the Imperial Japanese Army.
Fiction book (2001) -
Prior to that, I served over twenty-two years in the United States Marine Corps as an enlisted man, a noncommissioned officer, and a commissioned officer.
Academic text (1990) -
The service has a commissioned officers corps of over 5,000 in the United States and foreign countries.
Academic text (1996) -
A brigadier general, a major, and several other commissioned officers sat around a table in the Plaza waiting for the birds to check in.
Fiction book (1999) -
Graduates become commissioned officers at the graduation/commissioning ceremony, and they owe a minimum of 5 years of service.
Blog text (21) -
The military, and especially the Army, launched programs that sharply increased the percentage of blacks among senior noncommissioned and commissioned officers.
Academic text (2003) -
The Canadians faced yet another manpower crisis - this time a shortage of commissioned officers.
Academic text (1995) -
Exasperated, the brigadier finally answered: "Well, as a commissioned officer in the armed forces, I can assure you that what I've said is the truth."
Academic text (2002) -
Socialization at USMA aims to educate and train cadets for careers as commissioned officers in the U.S. Army and to "inspire each to a lifetime of service to the nation."
Academic text (2001) -
In World War I, there were no women commissioned officers except in the Nursing Corps.
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
A person in the military who has official rank and command
Antonyms
- Specialized
2
6.2
A military person promoted from lower ranks who leads and trains soldiers
How High
636
4.2
- Specialized
3
3.6
- Specialized
2
6.2
76
3.7
149
3.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is compositionally built: 'commissioned' describes how the 'officer' obtained rank (by a formal commission), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes an officer with a formal appointment. Although 'commissioned' is somewhat specialist vocabulary, the adjective+noun pattern is transparent and mirrors equivalent constructions in many languages, making the meaning predictable for B1 learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
Commissioned officer comes from the old idea of a commission: a written order from a king or the state that gave someone real power. An officer who held this official paper could legally give orders, so the phrase means a military leader 'with authority' from the government.