Officer vs Sergeant - What's the difference?
officer | sergeant |
(senseid)One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
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, title= (senseid)One who holds a public office.
(senseid)An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
(senseid)(colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.
UK army rank with NATO code , senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
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, chapter=13 (legal, historical) A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
(UK, historical)
A fish, the cobia.
As a noun officer
is (senseid)one who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.As a verb officer
is to supply with officers .As a proper noun sergeant is
.officer
English
(wikipedia officer)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
Derived terms
* non-commissioned officerSynonyms
* direct * conduct * managesergeant
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * sergeaunt (obsolete) * serjeant (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia sergeant) (en noun)citation, passage=“Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant .}}
- (Blackstone)
- sergeant surgeon, i.e. a servant, or attendant, surgeon