📚 noun • entry_id 30780
non-commissioned officer
Meanings (ES + gloss)
suboficial
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.
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