Petty Officer

Definition: Petty Officer

Petty Officer

Noun

1. A noncommissioned officer in the navy with a rank comparable to sergeant in the army.

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Synonyms: Petty Officer

Crosswords: Petty Officer

This is Chief Petty Officer Flaker (The Towering Inferno; writing credit: Richard Martin Stern; Thomas N. Scortia)

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Books

• Saga: An Autobiography of Hubert Ward Chief Petty Officer U.S. Navy Retired (reference)

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Exits a submarine's deck hatch, with the assistance of two Marines and a Chief Petty Officer, as the submarine returns to port following a successful war patrol, circa early 1945. Location is probably Guam. The returning submarine is probably USS Balao (SS-285). Note the name "V.C. Mavis" on the back of the prisoner's chambray shirt. Credit: NAVY.

Chief Petty Officer demonstrates the operation of a Maxim 1- pounder machine gun, circa May 1898. USS Topeka is fitting out in the background. Credit: NAVY.

A soldier and his family read early newspaper reports of Japan's surrender, while walking in Washington, DC, on 14 August 1945, shortly before the official announcement. Photographed by Chief Petty Officer Smith. Credit: NAVY.

U.S.S. Nahant, a chief petty officer. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Is it reasonable, that the eldest brother, because he has the greatest part of his father's estate, should thereby have a right to take away any of his younger brothers portions? or that a rich man, who possessed a whole country, should from thence have a right to seize, when he pleased, the cottage and garden of his poor neighbour? The being rightfully possessed of great power and riches, exceedingly beyond the greatest part of the sons of Adam, is so far from being an excuse, much less a reason, for rapine and oppression, which the endamaging another without authority is, that it is a great aggravation of it: for the exceeding the bounds of authority is no more a right in a great, than in a petty officer; no more justifiable in a king than a constable; but is so much the worse in him, in that he has more trust put in him, has already a much greater share than the rest of his brethren, and is supposed, from the advantages of his education, employment, and counsellors, to be more knowing in the measures of right and wrong. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Expressions using "petty officer": chief petty officer ♦ Fleet Chief Petty Officer ♦ Master Chief Petty Officer ♦ Petty Officer First Class ♦ Petty Officer Second Class ♦ Petty Officer Third Class ♦ Senior Chief Petty Officer. Additional references.

Albanian

nënoficer i marinës. (various references)

Bulgarian 

старшина (cockswain, coxswain, sergeant major), подофицер (non commissioned officer, non-com, sergeant). (various references)

Czech

poddùstojník (noncommissioned officer). (various references)

Danish

underofficer (noncom, non-commissioned officer). (various references)

Dutch

sergeant (sergeant), onderofficier (noncom, non-commissioned officer), meester (adept, boss, maestro, master). (various references)

Finnish

aliupseeri (non-commissioned officer). (various references)

French

second maître de 1ère classe (Petty Officer First Class), maître (Chief Petty Officer, Petty Officer First Class). (various references)

German

Bootsmann (boatswain, bosun). (various references)

Greek 

κελευστήσ, υπαξιωματικόσ του ναυτικού. (various references)

Hungarian

tengerészaltiszt. (various references)

Indonesian

ajudan (adjutant, aide, chief petty officer). (various references)

Italian

sottufficiale di marina, sottufficiale (senior rate, senior rating). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

海曹 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かいそう (attendance at a funeral, class, fast sailing, forwarding, hierarchy, level, marine plant, reburial, reflection, reminiscence, remodelling, reorganization, rout, seaweed, shipping, stampede, stratum). (various references)

Manx

myn-oikagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ettypay officeray.(various references)

Portuguese

sargento-ajudante (sergeant-major). (various references)

Romanian

subofiţer (non-com, Warrant officer). (various references)

Russian 

старшина (master sergeant, sergeant major, syndic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mornarički podoficir. (various references)

Spanish

contramaestre (boatswain, bosun). (various references)

Swedish

sergeant (flight sergeant, sarge, sergeant). (various references)

Turkish

erbaş (non commissioned officer, noncom, noncommissioned officer, ranker), deniz astsubayı, astsubay (junior officer, sergeant). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: cerotype, effector, ferocity, perfecto, prettify.

-5 letters: certify, coffret, coterie, cottier, ecotype, firepot, forfeit, fortify, officer, perfect, petrify, pettier, picotee, piefort, pottery, pottier, prefect, proette, protect, pyretic, receipt, rectify, treetop, tryptic, yperite.