orderly officer

American  

noun

1. Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.

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orderly officer British  

noun

1. another name for officer of the day

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Etymology

Origin of orderly officer

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

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orderly officer

During the next four years he had various field commands and in 1906 he became orderly officer to General Joffre, then commander of the 6th Infantry Division in Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

Presently the colonel seeing that this company did not rally sent an orderly officer who made his way up to it by protected paths.

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler

An orderly crosses quickly to the office and reports to the orderly officer, 'Two cars with stretcher cases.'

From On the King's Service Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms by Innes Logan

This news rendered the government uneasy; and, as there was no orderly officer then at hand, the Duke of Vicenza requested me, to go and reconnoitre.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon

However, two can play at that game, and my chance came a few nights later; I was on sentry duty and the old Major was acting as orderly officer.

From Into the Jaws of Death by Jack O'Brien