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orderly officer
noun
- Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of orderly officer1
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Example Sentences
Old "Spindle-legs" threw up his hands, gasped like a fish, and it seemed half a minute before he whispered "Orderly officer."
Presently the colonel seeing that this company did not rally sent an orderly officer who made his way up to it by protected paths.
So you have left the Prince of Monaco, whose orderly officer you were, I have been told.
The orderly-officer, conspicuous by his belt, sits at one end of the long table.
In those days the orderly officer would go round with his question of "Any complaints?"
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