officer

officer
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. policeman; functionary, official, bureaucrat; president, vice president, secretary, treasurer; registrar; mayor, governor. See director, authority.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [An executive]
Syn. manager, director, president; see administrator , leader 2 .
2. [One who enforces civil law]
Syn. police officer, magistrate, military police, deputy; see police , police officer , sheriff .
3. [One holding a responsible post in the armed forces]
American officers include --- Army and Marine Corps commissioned officers, and Army special officers: Commander in Chief, General of the Army, Lieutenant General, Major General, Brigadier General, Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, Captain, First Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant, Adjutant General, Aide-de-Camp, Chief of Staff, Assistant Chief of Staff, Chaplain, Inspector General, Judge Advocate General, Provost Marshal General, Quartermaster General, Surgeon General; Navy commissioned officers: Admiral of the Fleet, Fleet Admiral, Admiral, Rear Admiral, Vice Admiral, Commodore, Captain, Commander, Lieutenant Commander, Lieutenant, Lieutenant, junior grade; Ensign, Army and Marine Corps noncommissioned officers: Sergeant Major, Command Sergeant Major, Master Sergeant, First Sergeant, Staff Sergeant, Sergeant, Mate, Corporal, Lance Corporal, Private First Class, PFC, Private, Navy noncommissioned officers: Master Chief Petty Officer, Senior Chief, Chief, Seaman; temporary officers: Officer Commanding, Commanding Officer or CO*, officer of the day.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
1. policeman constable, magistrate, deputy, sheriff, peace officer, patrolman, *cop, *fuzz, *John Law. see police
2. official functionary, officeholder, bureaucrat, commissioner, director, minister, civil servant, secretary, commissar, corporate officer.
3. military officer MP, commissioned officer, noncommissioned officer, NCO. see air force, army, navy
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. A person having administrative or managerial authority in an organization: adminis-trant, administrator, director, executive, manager, official. Informal: exec. See OVER. 2. A member of a law-enforcement agency: blue-coat, finest, patrolman, patrolwoman, peace officer, police, policeman, police officer, policewoman. Informal: cop, law. Slang: bull1, copper, flatfoot, fuzz, gendarme, heat, man (often uppercase). Chiefly British: bobby, constable, peeler. See LAW.

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