non-commissioned officer
Noun
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Noun
non-commissioned officer (plural non-commissioned officers)
- A person of authority in the military who has not received a commission (a direct conveyance of authority from the sovereign government); as such they can have charge or control but not command in the most technical use of the word.
- A platoon sergeant may only be a non-commissioned officer but he's the one his men look to when the bullets start flying.
- non-commissioned member
- French: sous-officier
- German: Unteroffizier
- Italian: sottufficiale
- Portuguese: suboficial
- Russian: у́нтер-офице́р
- Spanish: suboficial
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