Word Meanings - LIEUTENANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant. 2. The body of lieutenants or subordinates. The list of the lieutenancy of our metropolis. Felton.

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• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• COMMISSIONAIRE
  1. One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• LIEUTENANT
  of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the
• COMMISSION
  1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. South. 2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
• LIEUTENANT GENERAL
  . An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and
• LIEUTENANTRY
  See LIEUTENANCY
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• COMMISSIONAL; COMMISSIONARY
  Of pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant. Delegate or commissionary authority. Bp. Hall.
• LIEUTENANTSHIP
  See 1
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• COMMISSIONATE
  To commission
• COMMISSIONNAIRE
  1. An agent or factor; a commission merchant. 2. One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.
• COMMISSIONER
  1. A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some bussiness, for the goverment, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims. To another adress which requisted
• METROPOLIS
  The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary. The great metropolis and see of Rome. Shak. (more info) 1. The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country. gray metropolis of the North. Tennyson.
• LIEUTENANCY
  1. The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant. 2. The body of lieutenants or subordinates. The list of the lieutenancy of our metropolis. Felton.
• COMMISSIONSHIP
  The office of commissioner. Sir W. Scott.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• SUBLIEUTENANT
  An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
• NONCOMMISSIONED
  Not having a commission. Noncommissioned officer , a subordinate officer not appointed by a commission from the chief executive or supreme authority of the State; but by the Secretary of War or by the commanding officer of the regiment.
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• UNDEROFFICER
  A subordinate officer.
• CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
  In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members, not more than two of whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified