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noun
Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
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Origin of orderly officer
First recorded in 1765–75
Words nearby orderly officer
ordered set,
order in council,
ordering,
orderly,
orderly marketing agreement,
orderly officer,
orderly room,
Order of Australia,
order of battle,
order of business,
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How to use orderly officer in a sentence
“Barbarism,” said retired NYPD Officer Jim Smith on Thursday.
In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
That officer fretting about his “stance,” we learn, is plagued by PTSD that cripples him both on the job and at home.
Smith attended both funerals as a cop and as the husband of Police Officer Moira Smith, who died on 9/11.
The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
Not only are they required to do things in a proper orderly manner, but people have to treat them with due deference.
But the cavalry officer melted imperceptibly out of her existence.
The engineer officer charged with preparing the line of retreat reported that the one bridge across the Elster was not sufficient.
That woman meant mischief, or she would never have dared to suggest that a British officer should throw in his lot with hers.
British Dictionary definitions for orderly officer
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