gunnery sergeant

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   a noncommissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant in the marines

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Questions about gunnery sergeant

What does gunnery sergeant mean?

gunnery sergeant means "a noncommissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant in the marines".

Is gunnery sergeant a common word?

gunnery sergeant 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.