Officer : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Officer	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
officer n any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command; "an officer is responsible for the lives of his men" Synonym(s): military officer, officer someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust; "he is an officer of the court"; "the club elected its officers for the coming year" Synonym(s): officeholder, officer a member of a police force; "it was an accident, officer" Synonym(s): policeman, police officer, officer a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel; "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines" Synonym(s): officer, ship's officer v direct or command as an officer
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Officer \Of"fi*cer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Officered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Officering}.] 1. To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over. --Marshall. 2. To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Officer \Of"ficer\, n. [F. officier. See {Office}, and cf. {Official}, n.] 1. One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer. [bd]I am an officer* of state.[b8] --Shak. 2. (U. S. Mil.) Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. {Field officer}, {General officer}, etc. See under {Field}, {General}. etc. {Officer of the day} (Mil.), the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard, prisoners, and police of the post or camp. {Officer of the deck}, [or] {Officer of the watch} (Naut.), the officer temporarily in charge on the deck of a vessel, esp. a war vessel.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Commission \Com*mis"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. commissio. See {Commit}.] 1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. --South. 2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed. 3. The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge. 4. A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties. Let him see our commission. --Shak. 5. A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission. 6. A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission. A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter. --Prescott. 7. (Com.) (a) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another. (b) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city. (c) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See {Del credere}. {Commission of array}. (Eng. Hist.) See under {Array}. {Commission of bankruptcy}, a commission appointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the bankrupt's lands and effects for the creditors. {Commission of lunacy}, a commission authorizing an inquiry whether a person is a lunatic or not. {Commission merchant}, one who buys or sells goods on commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per cent as his compensation. {Commission, [or] Commissioned}, {officer} (Mil.), one who has a commission, in distinction from a noncommissioned or warrant officer. {Commission of the peace}, a commission under the great seal, constituting one or more persons justices of the peace. [Eng.] {To put a vessel into commission} (Naut.), to equip and man a government vessel, and send it out on service after it has been laid up; esp.,