(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.
Subaltern
Definition:
(a.) Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.
(a.) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
(n.) A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.
(n.) A subaltern proposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subsistance strategies this Toba group has adopted are quite similar to the strategies other marginal or subaltern groups resort to.
(2) Though at the time I didn't realise it, both of these narratives had emerged from postcolonial and subaltern studies.
(3) In the 1980s, a new strand of postcolonialism, "subaltern studies", not only looked at the history of empire from the standpoint of the colonised and exploited but was practised by scholars in the former colonies.
(4) Three sources are explored: local disjunctions of class and gender in India, neocolonial biases in the structure of knowledge on aging central to international discourse, and subaltern strategies within India for subverting Western and elite Indian imperatives of what it means to be old.
(5) Realising when Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938 that war was inevitable, he postponed his wedding plans and volunteered for the army aged 19, joining the Royal Signals and earning a commission as a subaltern in 1940.
(6) They remained available as foot soldiers to any general, or at least subaltern, who cared to raise the standard of revolt.
(7) His national service was as an army subaltern, and provided a fund of farcical stories.
(8) In the first case it may be a way of assigning subalternate roles to them in relation to the efficiency expected of them or a way of mythologizing their condition as one of pseudo-happiness.
(9) Edward Fox is something of a Flemingesque dreamboat, with his flaxen locks, his aristocratic lockjaw and his subaltern's bearing (I imagine Fox as Freddie Forsyth's idealised version of himself ).
(10) In reality, his regiment was stationed in Germany where, though he was only a subaltern, his responsibilities extended to the meals in the officers' mess.