company officer

American  

noun

Army and Marine Corps.

1. a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.

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Etymology

Origin of company officer

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

And when a Labrador retriever owned by another company officer gulped down a bagel impaled with a toothpick, he said, most of the resulting $10,5000 surgical bill was covered as well.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2024

Each business purports to be involved in selling clothes and has a single company officer invariably described as an "entrepreneur" who lives in either in Italy, Georgia, Germany, France or Morocco.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2023

“Look at you - that’s a company officer in the making,” Williamson said as Huber led the Rapid Intervention Team.

From Washington Times • May 14, 2022

Stallings said in an interview that he had not been personally served the case, a claim Serpe disputed, noting that another company officer was given the complaint.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022

We did not know, but thought him a company officer of the rank of captain perhaps.

From The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland by Pearson, George