Dictionary Entry
officer
officer is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer.
- 3transitive verb
To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.
- 4transitive verb
To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.
- 5noun
any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command
"an officer is responsible for the lives of his men"
- 6noun
someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust
"he is an officer of the court"
"the club elected its officers for the coming year"
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- 7noun
a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel
"he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines"
- 8noun
a member of a police force
"it was an accident, officer"
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- 9verb
direct or command as an officer
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