Synonyms for officer
ˈɔ fə sər, ˈɒf ə-of·fi·cer

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1. officerverb

   Synonyms:
   manage, direct, conduct

2. officerverb

   To supply with officers.

   Synonyms:
   direct, manage, conduct

3. officerverb

   To command like an officer.

   Synonyms:
   conduct, manage, direct

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1. officer

   Synonyms:
   official, functionary, conductor, director, administrator, manager, dignitary, official

   Antonyms:
   member, servant, private, sinecurist

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1. military officer, officernoun

   any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command

   "an officer is responsible for the lives of his men"

   Synonyms:
   policeman, officeholder, officer, ship's officer, military officer, police officer

2. officeholder, officernoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   incumbent, policeman, officeholder, officer, ship's officer, military officer, police officer

3. policeman, police officer, officernoun

   a member of a police force

   "it was an accident, officer"

   Synonyms:
   policeman, officeholder, officer, ship's officer, military officer, police officer

4. officer, ship's officerverb

   a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel

   "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines"

   Synonyms:
   policeman, officeholder, ship's officer, officer, military officer, police officer

5. officerverb

   direct or command as an officer

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1. • Command
   • Holder
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1. officernoun

   Synonyms:
   official, functionary, magistrate

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1. officernoun

   Synonyms:
   office-holder, magistrate, dignitary, incumbent

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1. List of paraphrases for "officer":

   agent, official, officers, specialist, officer-in-charge, personnel, director, formal, agents, oficial, officier, staff, policeman, administrator, officership, employee, servant, officials, constable, patrolman, leader

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1. Mike Hastie:

   The( officer) came up from behind me, I guess, and just got me directly. The Department of Homeland Security blindsided me and I got a full dose of The Department of Homeland Security.

2. Russell Begaye:

   It's just devastating, it really hits you right here in the heart, the nation is suffering. The nation is in mourning because of the death of Officer Largo.

3. Denise Fale:

   We have a right to have the facts, and the facts are the young man had a gun, and just as Chief Anderson states, the definition of deadly force would have been the officer could have shot him -- but he showed a tremendous amount of restraint. The young man is alive today.

4. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters:

   I've been doing this for over 30 years. This is the most asinine act I've ever seen a police officer make -- totally unwarranted, it's an absolute tragedy in the year 2015 that anyone would behave in this manner. It was senseless.

5. Chris Smith:

   His condition has not improved since ; he has not regained consciousness, his wife, Yevgenia, said in an e-mail to RFE/RL and other media outlets. Kara-Murza’s father, a prominent journalist, told Russian media Thursday that the situation appears to be more serious than we thought. His lungs are being artificially ventilated, he is connected to 10 devices. Related ImageExpand / ContractKara-Murza,( l.), is an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as was his ally, Boris Nemtsov,( r.). , who was gunned down near the Kremlin in February. ( Reuters) Kara-Murza's father is a journalist with RFE/RL’s Russian Service. The activist's family was stopped short of raising public questions about whether foul play was involved. There is no criminal case so far, none has been opened because he is simply a normal patient who arrived at a Moscow hospital by ambulance. That’s his status, nothing more, his father told a radio station. Our task right now is to bring him to a normal trajectory of recuperation. We ’ll establish the cause [ of the illness ] later. Open Russia was founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil oligarch and Kremlin opponent who lives in Switzerland after Mikhail Khodorkovsky was pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013 following 10 years in prison. Open Russia's new documentary accuses Kadyrov, a former rebel fighter who joined forces with the Kremlin in 2000, of participating in murders and torture in the North Caucasus republic. Related ImageExpand / ContractChechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was accused of torture and murder in the new documentary. ( Reuters) Both the Kremlin and Kadyrov have denied involvement in the killing of Boris Nemtsov, although Kadyrov praised the main suspect in the case, a former Chechen police officer, as a.