warrant officer

1. 1.

   holds rank by virtue of a warrant

   Broadermilitary officer

   military

Questions about warrant officer

What does warrant officer mean?

warrant officer means "holds rank by virtue of a warrant".

Is warrant officer a common word?

warrant 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.