Definition of Officer

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Officer

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.

Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer.

To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.

To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.

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Officer Quotations

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.
Robert Mugabe

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
Thurgood Marshall

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
Martin Van Buren

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.
Billy Sunday

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
Charles Babbage

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Horatio Nelson

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
Horatio Nelson

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.
John L. Lewis

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.
Lawrence Eagleburger

In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.
Lawrence Eagleburger

Officer Translations

officer in Danish is embedsmand, officer
officer in Dutch is officier
officer in Finnish is virkailija
officer in French is fonctionnaire, officier
officer in German is leitender Angestellter, Offizier, Beamter
officer in Italian is funzionario
officer in Spanish is funcionario

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