(n.) An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty.
(n.) A commissioned officer in the army, next below a captain.
(n.) A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander.
(n.) A commissioned officer in the United States navy, in rank next below a lieutenant commander.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vladimir Putin brushed off complaints of election fixing during his annual televised live chat with the nation on Thursday , but behind the scenes his lieutenants are anxiously plotting how to quell rising discontent.
(2) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(3) Others believe that, despite the fact that some of his closest lieutenants are among those indicted by US authorities, he planned to use the time until the new election to ease a favoured successor into the post.
(4) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
(5) Updated at 3.01pm BST 2.17pm BST POLICE CONFIRM DEATH Greek police have confirmed that a man has died during today's protests (as reported at 13.40 ) Greece's police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Christos Manouras says the dead man's body has been taken to Athens' biggest public hospital, Evangelismos.
(6) Lieutenant General Abdel Wahab al-Saadi said his forces secured the largely agricultural southern neighbourhood of Naymiya, under cover of US-led coalition airstrikes, and are poised to enter the main city.
(7) And on all counts, Cameron and his lieutenants will be dead wrong.
(8) His lieutenants have floated the possibility that whoever takes over our roads could get them on 100-year leases – which would just be transferring a public asset to some private-sector oligarch.
(9) "They had taken some Iranian and Pakistani hostages so we had to separate them from the pirate suspects," said Lieutenant Commander Claus Krum, a veteran of five piracy missions.
(10) I was just a young lieutenant flying out in the West Pacific off aircraft carriers, and at that time I believed – and I think most other people did too – that they were asking us to do something that was impossible.
(11) His friends and contacts reflected the broad span of his interests, from Winston Churchill, whose History of the English-Speaking Peoples Briggs proofread as a young don, to Chairman Mao’s loyal lieutenant Zhou Enlai and J Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atom bomb.
(12) Djibrine and Younous were convicted and jailed for life earlier this year in N’Djamena after their surprise arrests in 2013, but three other suspected senior lieutenants are still on the run.
(13) Former Rwandan ambassador to Washington, Theogene Rudasingwa, explained to Newsweek in a January article how the Rwandan government extracted money out of the DRC: "After the first Congo war, money began coming in through military channels and never entered the coffers of the Rwandan state," says Rudasingwa, Kagame's former lieutenant.
(14) Sports Direct's chief executive, Dave Forsey, a long-standing lieutenant of Ashley, said: "The share scheme glues this company together.
(15) The Libyan had been a Bin Laden lieutenant and had served as an al-Qaida link with supporters in Iran, Iraq and Algeria.
(16) In keeping with the long tradition of skulking secrecy, the appointment was not made public until 2000, by which time he was a lieutenant-general and, to those in the know, second only to Mubarak.
(17) While focusing criticism on a few members of the regiment – particularly Corporal Donald Payne, Lieutenant Craig Rodgers and Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Mendonca – the report also passes scathing comment on the role of the unit's regimental medical officer, Dr Derek Keilloh, and its padre, Father Peter Madden.
(18) Democrats also won the battle for lieutenant governor and were within a whisker of securing the post of attorney general – an unprecedented sweep in a state that until recently was a Republican stronghold.
(19) Lieutenant colonel Peter Lerner spokesman for the Israeli Defence Force said: [Hamas] has a policy of abduction, so we have to inflict a certain amount of pressure on the organisation so they realise it is not worth it to carry out this.
(20) Offering a pair of binoculars, first lieutenant Noman Osman, a Kurdish soldier, pointed to the Isis checkpoint.
Platoon
Definition:
(n.) Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.
(n.) Now, in the United States service, half of a company.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stone's previous films include Platoon, JFK and W. The director has also made documentaries on Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, together with a 2012 TV series, Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States.
(2) "If you had a platoon of cyclists coming all at once, which tends to be how traffic moves, and they have priority over traffic trying to get off the roundabout, that could lock up the roundabout very quickly.
(3) But I do find that the platoon commanders of the medical profession are failing in this leadership task.
(4) During his time, his machine gun platoon spent many of its days patrolling local villages, delivering school supplies to students and food and water.
(5) The proponents of truck platooning say several hurdles still needed to be ironed out and road users would not see self-driving trucks just yet.
(6) The platoon commander decided not to report the incident immediately because of the officer's rank.
(7) Solidarity, community and small platoons are indeed under attack in many ways, not least from globalisation, information technology and multiculturalism, all of which pose challenges as well as delivering immense benefits.
(8) When I went into the US army in Vietnam I noticed it on another level completely because there was such a divided culture between black and white, and I got into that heavily, having dealt with it, to some degree, in my films Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July That division between race, gender and culture empowered Nixon in the long run.
(9) Something is bubbling under the surface and the ragtag platoon of Ukip activists in Somerset say they feel it too.
(10) The operations, particularly from the point of view of treatment and evacuation of casualties, differed from those of the Brigades who were operating inside Burma itself owing to the nature of the terrain, but the basic problems, particularly from the platoon commander's point of view, were the same.
(11) We don't need self-driving cars – we need to ditch our vehicles entirely Read more “Truck platooning” involves two or three trucks that autonomously drive in convoy and are connected via wireless, with the leading truck determining route and speed.
(12) In one of the most serious accusations of war crimes to emerge from the Afghan conflict, Gibbs is alleged to have recruited other soldiers to murder civilians he called "savages" after he took over command of a US army platoon in Afghanistan's Kandahar province in November 2009.
(13) Despite having Xander Bogaerts available, John Farrell has been reluctant to explore platoon-type situations.
(14) That being said, like Victorino, Gomes is another intangibles type, but a platoon player at best, that despite the bears.
(15) Some elements of training could contribute to the abuses below, including employment of riot control techniques, platoon ambushes, building and street clearance, company attack and marksmanship skills.” Two of the arrested soldiers are awaiting sentencing after admitting their part in sexual assaults.
(16) Sergeants typically are second in command to a troop or platoon of up to 35 soldiers.
(17) The recruits who were allergic to penicillin (7 percent of the total), who received no prophylaxis, were more likely to be colonized; an increased risk of colonization and infection among the nonallergic recruits was associated with the presence of a higher percentage of allergic recruits in the platoon.
(18) He lost five men during that tour, and said poor communications between platoons due to a lack of radios contributed to the death of Pritchard, who was killed by a British sniper in what remains one of the most controversial friendly-fire incidents of the 13-year campaign.
(19) While a platoon commander in the army he had accompanied officers in house-to-house searches for wanted men in Homs, he said.
(20) The doubly labeled water method was used to estimate the energy expended by four members of an Australian Army platoon (34 soldiers) engaged in training for jungle warfare.