Lieutenant

[lef'tenənt] or [lu'tɛnənt]

解释:

(noun.) an officer in a police force.

(noun.) a commissioned military officer.

(noun.) an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade.

编辑:卡蒂--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty.

(n.) A commissioned officer in the army, next below a captain.

(n.) A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander.

(n.) A commissioned officer in the United States navy, in rank next below a lieutenant commander.

亨利录入

解释:

n. one representing or performing the work of another: an officer holding the place of another in his absence: a commissioned officer in the army next below a captain or in the navy next below a commander and ranking with captain in the army: one holding a place next in rank to a superior as in the compounds Lieuten′ant-col′onel Lieuten′ant-gen′eral.—ns. Lieuten′ancy Lieuten′antship office or commission of a lieutenant: the body of lieutenants; Lieuten′ant-gov′ernor in India the name of the chief official in the provinces of Bengal Behar and Orissa the North-western Provinces and Oudh Punjab and Delhi; Lieuten′ant-gov′ernorship; Lieuten′antry (Shak.) lieutenancy; Lord′-lieuten′ant the title of the viceroy of Ireland: in the British Isles a permanent governor of a county appointed by the sovereign usually a peer or other large land-owner at the head of the magistracy and the chief executive authority; Sub′-lieuten′ant formerly mate or passed midshipman now the intermediate rank in the navy between midshipman and lieutenant.—Field-marshal lieutenant (see Field-marshal).

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