group captain

1. 1.

   a commissioned officer (especially one in the Royal Air Force) equivalent in rank to a colonel in the army

   Broadercaptain

Questions about group captain

What does group captain mean?

group captain means "a commissioned officer (especially one in the Royal Air Force) equivalent in rank to a colonel in the army".

Is group captain a common word?

group captain 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.