quartermaster
noun
an officer charged with providing quarters, clothing, fuel, transportation, etc., for a body of troops.
quartermastership
-
a word derived from
quartermaster.
Example Sentences
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Neither ridicule nor entreaty could bend his purpose; but the Secretary of War, hearing of the case, conferred a brigade quartermastership upon him.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
