chief petty officer

1. 1.

   a person with the senior noncommissioned naval rank

   Broadernoncommissioned officer

   military

Questions about chief petty officer

What does chief petty officer mean?

chief petty officer means "a person with the senior noncommissioned naval rank".

Is chief petty officer a common word?

chief petty officer 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.