ship's officer

Questions about ship's officer

What does ship's officer mean?

ship's officer means "a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel".

What is another word for ship's officer?

Close synonyms include officer. 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 ship's officer a common word?

ship's 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.