field grade
Noun
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Noun
field grade (plural field grades)
- (military) Each of the commissions which rank a (para)military officer below the (highest) class of general officers, but above other commissioned officers and NCOs.
- In various armies, major is the lowest field grade, full colonel the highest field grade.
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