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field officer

American  

noun

Military.
  1. an officer holding a field grade.


field officer British  

noun

  1. an officer holding field rank , namely that of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of field officer

First recorded in 1650–60

Example Sentences

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“The new ‘magic number’ reflects a convergence of factors — from persistent inflation and longer life expectancies, to uncertainty about the future of Social Security,” said John Roberts, chief field officer at Northwestern Mutual.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

"He's almost like a dog in behaviour, so we want to maintain his life of being a happy, social pig," said Augusta Allen, a field officer with Aurora Animal Services,

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2023

“We have jokes about that both internally and externally,” Keron Blair, the chief field officer for New Georgia Project Action Fund, a top organizing group in the state, told me.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2022

“We did the same,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former C.I.A. field officer in Afghanistan who retired last year as the agency’s acting chief of operations in Europe and Eurasia.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2020

The first thing he needed was a field officer who could lead a team of soldiers and civilians into the monkey house.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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