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officer

[aw-fuh-ser, of-uh-] / ˈɔ fə sər, ˈɒf ə- /




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Cadillac chief executive officer Dan Towriss made it clear last week that he had always envisaged there would be a time when Graeme Lowdon would be replaced as team principal.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

“Our second quarter results exceeded our expectations,” Richard McPhail, chief financial officer at the Atlanta-based company, said in a statement.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

Joe Chapman, a former prison officer, set up a support group for prisoners, their families and employees at Millsike in response to what he described as a "chaotic" start for the jail.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

The witness list includes several of Shakur’s family members and Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, who was formerly an officer of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

“I love this,” he said, bursting into a chuckle before turning to the dour-looking officer next to him.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Plainclothes officers cordoned off Zhu’s ancestral home in the landlocked Hunan province and turned away visitors who came to lay flowers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Customs Deputy Chief of Staff Noel Bendijo told AFP they had acted on intelligence from their own officers in Zamboanga.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

But former workers have described under-staffing, inadequate training and seeing specialist officers called in to deal with serious incidents on numerous occasions.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Castro’s case was the second time local prosecutors have leveled criminal charges against federal officers for their conduct in the city this winter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

There was the “football”—a black briefcase carried by military officers, handed off from one to the other, kept close to the president at all times.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Imprisoned for two months by Kasavubu's central government, he had won release by promising Strongman Joseph Mobutu that he would merge his 11,600 army, officered by 634 Europeans, with that of the central government.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our new armies are officered by classes of society who are new to the job.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three weeks later they would return, clad in a motley array of khaki uniforms and armed with the weapons they had been taught to use in a crash program officered by Algerian "volunteers."

From Time Magazine Archive

These Circles are groups of 20, organized by counties, each officered only by a secretary.

From Time Magazine Archive

It's open gossip all over the West that the P. S. L. is officered by a lot of dummies and place-hunters and relatives.

From The Wreckers by Francis Lynde

But decades of corruption in palace and government paid off disastrously in lack of ammunition, inferior arms and cowardly officering.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through one of his agents he succeeded in officering it with well-known Southerners, who knew only that part of the plan which contemplated an increase in prices, and were in sympathy with it.

From Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 by Edward Mandell House

They possessed none of the dash and fire of the hardier troops; their organization was--and still is--defective; and the system of officering them was radically bad.

From For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

There must be neither companies to fill their own pockets out of it, nor trustees who can cramp the management, or interfere with the officering, or shorten the supplies of it.

From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin

She begins on the right principle by officering her colonies with her best men, naval and military.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton




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