enlisted officer

1. 1.

   a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel

   Synonymsnoncommissioned officernoncom

   Broadermilitary officer

   Narroweraircraftsmanbombardierchief petty officercorporaldrill masterlance corporalpetty officersergeant

   military

Questions about enlisted officer

What does enlisted officer mean?

enlisted officer means "a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel".

What is another word for enlisted officer?

Close synonyms include noncommissioned officer, noncom. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enlisted officer a common word?

enlisted 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.