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lieutenant colonel
noun
- a commissioned officer ranking next below a colonel and next above a major.
lieutenant colonel
noun
- an officer holding commissioned rank immediately junior to a colonel in certain armies, air forces, and marine corps
Word History and Origins
Origin of lieutenant colonel1
Example Sentences
The colonels and lieutenant colonels and captains dropping hats, ties and ranks and becoming Jim, Cynthia, Joe and Frank as they formed four-person litters to rescue the wounded, litters that would not be used that day.
Aliaksandr Azarau was a lieutenant colonel in Belarus’s police force, and before that, he worked to combat organized crime and corruption for the Ministry of Interior.
Parker, an engineer who had graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic, had served with Grant in the Civil War as a commissioned lieutenant colonel, and transcribed the terms of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in part because of his excellent handwriting.
My immediate chief was a Lieutenant Colonel Verne L. Bowers, clearly picked out by Eisenhower as a highly talented staff officer.
Dave Bredensteiner of Bedford, who served under the lieutenant colonel in Iraq, praised her effusively as an excellent leader.
Ernst, a lieutenant colonel in the Iowa National Guard, seemed Palinesque at times.
Ironically, former Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North is another featured speaker at the NRA Convention.
The lieutenant colonel experienced that with his Christmas party.
Lieutenant Colonel Buell, in command at Independence, although repeatedly warned, allowed himself to be surprised.
His experience and ability soon marked him out for command, and he was chosen by his comrades as lieutenant-colonel.
His career cannot have been brilliant, since it took him twenty years to rise to the rank corresponding to a lieutenant-colonel.
Both the colonel and lieutenant-colonel of the regiment to which Edward Middleton belonged had fallen.
He was, for this reason, at once elected lieutenant-colonel of the volunteer legion of the Pyrenees.
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