Chief of Naval Operations

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noun

the highest officer in the U.S. Navy and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Origin of Chief of Naval Operations

First recorded in 1910–15

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All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
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