lance corporal

1. 1.

   an enlisted man in the marine corps ranking above a private first class and below a corporal

   Broadernoncommissioned officer

Questions about lance corporal

What does lance corporal mean?

lance corporal means "an enlisted man in the marine corps ranking above a private first class and below a corporal".

Is lance corporal a common word?

lance corporal 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.