noncommissioned
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of noncommissioned
1695–1705; non- + commissioned ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Experienced officers and noncommissioned officers should teach these skills, set a standard for discipline and require cadets to meet it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Does holding a commission necessarily mean a candidate is better suited to elective office than one who was a noncommissioned officer or a PFC or Seaman Apprentice?
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2024
But after The Associated Press made requests for comment on Meyer’s case, the office of the Army’s top noncommissioned officer, Sgt.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
He said that those freed included 11 officers and 85 privates and noncommissioned officers.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
He had not our dire incentive for the success of that Regiment—a noncommissioned officer in a hated regiment in a precarious fastness only a few hundred feet from a growing and volatile enemy.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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