non-commissioned officer

See also noncommissioned officer

English

Alternative forms

• noncommissioned officer (US)

Noun

non-commissioned officer (plural non-commissioned officers)

1. 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.

Translations

person of authority in the military who has not received a commission

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 士官 (cmn), 軍士 (cmn), 军士 (cmn) (jūnshì)

• Dutch: onderofficier (nl) m
• Estonian: allohvitser (et)
• Finnish: aliupseeri (fi)
• French: sous-officier (fr) m
• German: Unteroffizier (de) m
• Greek: υπαξιωματικός (el) (ypaxiomatikós) m
• Japanese: 下士官 (ja)
• Jèrriais: souôs-officyi m
• Korean: 부사관 (ko)

• Macedonian: подофицер (mk) (pódoficer) m
• Norwegian: underoffiser (no)
• Polish: podoficer (pl)
• Russian: унтер-офицер (ru) (unter-oficer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: подофицир (sh) m, дочасник (sh) m

  Roman: podoficir (sh) m, dočasnik (sh) m

• Slovene: podčastnik (sl)
• Spanish: suboficial (es) m
• Swedish: underofficer (sv)
• Walloon: bas oficî (wa)

Related terms

• non-commissioned member

External links

• Officer (armed forces) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Officer (armed forces)