orderly sergeant

1. 1.

   the first sergeant of a company; duties formerly included the conveyance of orders

   Broaderfirst sergeant

Questions about orderly sergeant

What does orderly sergeant mean?

orderly sergeant means "the first sergeant of a company; duties formerly included the conveyance of orders".

Is orderly sergeant a common word?

orderly 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.