English

Alternative forms

• non-commissioned officer (US)

Noun

noncommissioned officer ‎(plural noncommissioned officers)

1. A person of authority in the military who has not received a commission (a direct conveyance of authority from the sovereign government); as such they can have charge or control but not command in the most technical use of the word.

   A platoon sergeant may only be a noncommissioned officer but he's the one his men look to when the bullets start flying.

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