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English

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A group ofcustoms officers

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishofficer, fromAnglo-Normanofficer,officier, fromOld Frenchofficer,Late Latinofficiarius(“official”), fromLatinofficium(“office”) +-ārius(“-er”). Bysurface analysis,office +‎-er.

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Noun

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officer (pluralofficers)

  2. One who has a position ofauthority in ahierarchicalorganization, especially inmilitary,police orgovernment organizations.
    Hypernyms:officeholder <person
    • 2025 June 9, Mónica De Anda, “SEIU President David Huerta released from custody on $50k bond following arrest during ICE raid”, inKABC-TV‎[1]:
      Huerta was arrested while law enforcementofficers were executing a federal search warrant at a Los Angeles business suspected of hiring illegal immigrants and falsifying employment papers, a special agent for Homeland Security Investigations, which is part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, wrote in a federal court filing.[…] A law enforcementofficer approached Huerta and told him to leave, then put his hands on Huerta to move him out of the way of a vehicle, the agent wrote.
  3. Arespectfulterm ofaddress for an officer, especially a police officer.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      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 commandingofficer doing billets.
  5. One who holds apublic office.
    Hypernyms:officeholder <person
  7. Anagent orservantimparted with theability, to some degree, to act oninitiative.
    • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn,Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page108:
      Early in the Talmudic period the service was divided between twoofficers. One was invited to recite the Shema including the benedictions connected with it... After he was through, another man was invited to stand up before the pulpit facing the direction of Jerusalem to recite the prayer proper, i.e., the Amida.
  9. (colloquial, military) Acommissioned officer.

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Translations

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one who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization
a respectful term of address for an officer, especially a police officer
one who holds a public office
agent or servant endowed with the ability to act on initiative
contraction of the term "commissioned officer"
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Verb

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officer (third-person singular simple presentofficers,present participleofficering,simple past and past participleofficered)

  1. (transitive) Tosupply with officers.
  2. (transitive) Tocommand as or like an officer.
    • 1848 November –1850 December,William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 31, inThe History of Pendennis. […], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London:Bradbury and Evans, […], published1849–1850,→OCLC:
      Many of our journals areofficered by Irish gentlemen, and their gallant brigade does the penning among us, as their ancestors used to transact the fighting in Europe; and engage under many a flag, to be good friends when the battle is over.
    • 1929,Robert Graves, chapter 10, inGood-Bye to All That‎[2], London: Jonathan Cape, page115:
      The regular battalions of the regiment, thoughofficered mainly by Anglo-Welshmen of county families, did not normally contain more than about one Welshman in fifty in the ranks.
    • 1992,Alasdair Gray,Poor Things, Bloomsbury, published2002, page306:
      [A]t least a quarter of those who fought and died in the Great War were prosperous with spacious homes, and to this class belonged nearly all who had ordered andofficered the carnage.

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Translations

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to supply with officers
to command like an officer

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromAnglo-Normanofficer,officier, fromLatinofficiārius; equivalent tooffice +‎-er.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɔfiˈseːr/,/ˈɔfisər/

Noun

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officer (pluralofficers)

  1. Ahireling orsubordinate; one employed to serve, especially at anestate.
  2. Anofficial orofficeholder; the holder of a prominentoffice orposition.
  3. Amunicipal,local orsocietalofficial orofficeholder.
  4. Areligious orecclesiasticalofficial orofficeholder.
  5. (religion) Adeputy orsubordinate of the forces of good or evil.
  6. (rare) One whosupervises ororganises jousting.
  7. (rare) Amember orleader of amilitary force.

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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officeroblique singular, m (oblique pluralofficers,nominative singularofficers,nominative pluralofficer)

  1. officer

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchofficer.

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officer c

  1. officer, a military person offänrik grade or higher
  2. (archaic)ämbetsman,tjänsteman; one who holds a public office

Declension

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Declension ofofficer
nominativegenitive
singularindefiniteofficerofficers
definiteofficerenofficerens
pluralindefiniteofficerareofficerares
definiteofficerarnaofficerarnas

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