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petty officer

noun

a noncommissioned U.S. Navy rank with three grades.

one of the minor officers on a merchant ship, as a boatswain or carpenter.

Origin:
1570–80

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petty officer

—n
	a noncommissioned officer in a naval service, comparable in rank to a sergeant in an army or marine corps

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