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flag rank

American  

noun

  1. naval rank above that of captain.


flag rank British  

noun

  1. the rank of a flag officer

"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 flag rank

First recorded in 1890–95


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Chang was among the first naturalized Asian American naval officers to achieve flag rank in the U.S. military.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2017

Naval Academy in 1985, colleagues sensed that Graf was on a fast track to flag rank.

From Time ● Mar. 11, 2010

Promoted to flag rank when he was only 49, he became the first skipper of the U.S.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since his promotion to flag rank, he has been deskbound and restless.

From Time Magazine Archive

He attained to flag rank in October, 1846.

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie

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