lieutenant junior grade

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noun U.S. Navy.

a commissioned officer ranking above an ensign and below a lieutenant.

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Origin of lieutenant junior grade

First recorded in 1905–10

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I know the verse because Mrs. Bertalan used to have us do it in ninth-grade choir.
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“By no means are we Grade A professional consultants,” Goff said.
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He was a young Army Air Force lieutenant whose plane crashed in the Pacific in May 1943.
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At the end of the campaign the Emperor justly rewarded his lieutenant by creating him Prince of Wagram.
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He was a member of the first provincial congress, and eighteen years lieutenant governor of the state of New York.
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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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We were about nine hours of fair daylight traversing 160 miles of level or descending grade, with a light passenger train.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The Lieutenant rode off highly elated over the fact that Colonel Guitar agreed with his views.
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