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noun U.S. Military .
a commissioned officer ranking next below a colonel and next above a major.
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Origin of lieutenant colonel First recorded in 1590–1600
Words nearby lieutenant colonel Lieut. ,
Lieut. Col. ,
Lieut. Comdr. ,
lieutenancy ,
lieutenant ,
lieutenant colonel ,
lieutenant commander ,
lieutenant general ,
lieutenant governor ,
lieutenant junior grade ,
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How to use lieutenant colonel in a sentence The colonels and lieutenant colonel s and captains dropping hats, ties and ranks and becoming Jim, Cynthia, Joe and Frank as they formed four-person litters to rescue the wounded, litters that would not be used that day.
Aliaksandr Azarau was a lieutenant colonel in Belarus’s police force, and before that, he worked to combat organized crime and corruption for the Ministry of Interior.
Parker, an engineer who had graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic, had served with Grant in the Civil War as a commissioned lieutenant colonel , and transcribed the terms of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in part because of his excellent handwriting.
When a top Mobutu confidant named Colonel Alphonse Bangala purchased the island, Lometcha bought shares.
He was a young Army Air Force lieutenant whose plane crashed in the Pacific in May 1943.
Neary had held the rank of lieutenant since 1983 and received multiple commendations during nearly four decades on the job.
Those who spoke out against it included a fellow Air Force colonel, Lindsay Graham, who also happens to be a U.S. senator.
Why has Michael Bloomberg replaced his longtime lieutenant with the editor-in-chief of The Economist?
At the end of the campaign the Emperor justly rewarded his lieutenant by creating him Prince of Wagram.
The Colonel and his two friends rode back towards the south, from whence they came.
"Colonel Shaffer is a few miles to the west with about five hundred men," replied Harry.
He was a member of the first provincial congress, and eighteen years lieutenant governor of the state of New York.
The tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.
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British Dictionary definitions for lieutenant colonel
noun
an officer holding commissioned rank immediately junior to a colonel in certain armies, air forces, and marine corps
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