charge of quarters

1. 1.

   an enlisted man who handles his unit's administrative matters after hours

   Broaderenlisted man

Questions about charge of quarters

What does charge of quarters mean?

charge of quarters means "an enlisted man who handles his unit's administrative matters after hours".

Is charge of quarters a common word?

charge of quarters is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.