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Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.

Commanding :: Commanding (a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer..

Commodore :: Commodore (n.) An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army..

Forejudge :: Forejudge (v. t.) To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court..

Interventor :: Interventor (n.) One who intervenes; a mediator; especially (Eccles. Hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers..

Marshal :: Marshal (n.) A ministerial officer, appointed for each judicial district of the United States, to execute the process of the courts of the United States, and perform various duties, similar to those of a sheriff. The name is also sometimes applied to certain police officers of a city..

Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant..

Woodman :: Woodman (n.) A forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester.

Report :: Report (v. i.) To present one's self, as to a superior officer, or to one to whom service is due, and to be in readiness for orders or to do service; also, to give information, as of one's address, condition, etc.; as, the officer reported to the general for duty; to report weekly by letter..

Bombardier :: Bombardier (n.) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.

Attestation :: Attestation (n.) The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation..

Company :: Company (n.) The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company..

Devolve :: Devolve (v. i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank..

Chair :: Chair (n.) The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair..

Cadilesker :: Cadilesker (n.) A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers..

Gazetteer :: Gazetteer (n.) A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority..

Archchamberlain :: Archchamberlain (n.) A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England..

Prorector :: Prorector (n.) An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university.

Cutter :: Cutter (n.) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.

Embezzlement :: Embezzlement (n.) The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge..

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