noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a careers officer (= someone who gives careers advice )
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If you’re not sure what to do, why don’t you talk to a careers officer?
a police officer
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The police officer asked to see his driving licence.
a prison officer/official/warder/guard
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Last month, a prisoner attacked two prison officers with a knife.
a senior officer (= in the police or military )
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Inspector Wild is the senior officer in charge of the investigation.
an army officer
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Both daughters married army officers.
careers officer
chief executive officer
commanding officer
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a commanding officer
commissioned officer
community support officer
excise officer (= someone who collects excise )
field officer
first officer
flying officer
medical officer
non-commissioned officer
petty officer
pilot officer
police community support officer
police officer
probation officer
ranking officer (= the one with the highest rank )
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He’s the ship’s ranking officer .
returning officer
safety officer
staff officer
warrant officer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
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This evidence was available to the chief veterinary officer last December but never given to the Select Committee.
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Ivester will remain chief operating officer for the time being, a spokeswoman added.
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Always give the chairman of the committee and its chief officer notice of any question to be put at the council meeting.
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Daniel was chief financial officer at Freddie Mac since June 1994.
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Barry Cox, 53 years old, chief executive officer and president, resigned to pursue other interests.
commanding
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His recommendation was that a commanding officer be appointed with an administrative staff.
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However, its commanding officer , Maj.-Gen.
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Behind the familiar trestle table with its grey army blanket, sat the commanding officer flanked by two others of lesser rank.
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In ships at sea chaplains or commanding officers have pre-recorded tapes containing organ accompaniments and a compilation of hymns.
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A kind letter from the commanding officer , his kit bag.
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The buddy patrol will not interfere with any police matter, unless instructed by a commanding officer .
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And after another sleepless night, the green-eyed woman took her to the commanding officer .
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We hear nothing from our commanding officer .
environmental
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The nursery has closed down while environmental health officers try to find the source of the food poisoning.
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Prisons are exempt from having regular visits from environmental health officers , but in April 1992 this Crown Immunity will be lifted.
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Eventually, environmental health officers seized Mary Carruthers' stereo system and speakers after a petition from neighbours.
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This survey differs from previous ones in that the department brought in private surveyors to work with environmental health officers .
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The study is based on results collected by environmental health officers from five local authorities in the course of their inspections.
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The work of the environmental health officer will be particularly affected.
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Doug, 60, was chatting about food regulations to a town hall environmental officer when he chummily addressed him as Richard.
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For environmental health officer John Waite, it's just another in a long list of complaints about noise.
executive
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To say he was both administrative and executive officer to the family - and legal adviser - would be nearer the mark.
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He was executive officer aboard the Honolulu, a nuclear attack submarine.
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Mr Fowler has conceded that about 100 higher executive officer posts are threatened, but staff fear more jobs could be lost.
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He succeeds Robert L.. Gable, 65, who continues as chairman and chief executive officer .
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In 1971 he was named president and chief executive officer .
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They may even advance to peak corporate positions such as chief operating officer or chief executive officer.
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Under the direction of chief executive officer Roberto Rodriguez, the medical center is in the process of reinventing itself.
financial
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Chief financial officer Andy Bryant said that will lower per-share earnings by 6 cents.
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He succeeds the acting chief financial officer , Raymond R.. Monteleone.
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Mr Bradley, 47 years old, will also continue to serve as chief financial officer .
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Apple Computer reached outside the personal computer industry yesterday for a new chief financial officer .
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David McNutt, the No. 2 financial officer .
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Three years later, he was appointed chief financial officer .
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Best Buy will cut back on orders for new computers this month, says Allen Lenzmeier, the chief financial officer .
junior
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At least 20 of the rebel junior officers who staged the uprising surrendered by late afternoon.
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Beginning with the junior officer present, all voted to surrender but two...
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Ron McGregor, a junior officer with me on Vincent was not a regular Commander of the new Vigilant.
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He refused evacuation until he was certain his junior officer was in control of the situation.
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In March 1988, a group of junior officers attempted a coup.
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We were the two most junior warrant officers in the company.
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A junior officer was suspended from duty following the May 12 incidents.
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Some junior officers were further back, with the mail sacks.
local
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He spent a career as a local government officer and was active in the affairs of the Methodist Church.
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Du Pont used to allow local police officers to train on his estate, and equipped the department with expensive bulletproof vests.
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Those living on estates further from the office will be served by surgeries staffed by the local officers .
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Anti-crime efforts including federal aid for hiring 100, 000 new local police officers .
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We also get a number of visits at the playgroup, including the local road safety officer who talks to the children.
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It was in the Steelworkers, in the seventies, that I came to know about local officers .
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In one other respect, too, local government officers offer a contrast with central government.
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The members could still elect local officers , but it was like electing your classmates to student council.
medical
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As a nurse, I shall also be acting as medical officer for the group.
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Professional engineers, communications officers , medical officers and stewards run the ship and all are volunteers with the same religious purpose.
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Mr. Kenealy then asked the medical officer a number of specific questions about Miss Price's work.
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London appointed the first school medical officer in 1890.
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A medical officer of a large multinational company once described people as being like oil rigs.
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The medical officer was subsequently questioned about some individual patients.
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Politics, page 6 Chief medical officer disputes government statement Sugar report sparks clash on health risk.
military
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After an hour at Customs, a military officer took us to a restaurant and then to the barracks to sleep.
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Franklin Delano, the son-in-law of William Astor; and a group of high-ranking military officers .
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Some of the burgh politicians were themselves military officers .
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As in the photographs, his white shirt and khaki trousers are so well pressed that he looks like a military officer .
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It was also reported that three dismissed military officers had been charged with rebellion and murder in connection with the December coup attempt.
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Of the 270 members, 116 were civilians, the rest being military and police officers .
naval
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Tell that to Huseyin Ertan, a retired naval officer who is the Bosporus's chief traffic cop.
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It is the hope and dream of every naval officer some day to fly his own flag.
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Those reported to have been arrested included a naval officer and Daniel Narcisse.
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Both mills were under the authority of naval officers on leave.
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The ideal naval officer was a man.
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Kistiakowsky worked well with Deke Parsons, the naval officer in charge of the Ordnance Division.
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While a naval officer , he invented and designed the first-ever aircraft carrier, the Angus.
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Eric Hodges, a Miramar spokesman and naval flight officer .
other
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Three other officers were given suspended three-year sentences for destroying evidence.
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Four other officers were slightly hurt.
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The other officer climbed in and sat between me and the pilot.
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Beneath his control were two other officers significant in royal government, the Treasurer of the Chamber and the King's Secretary.
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Seven other County Durham officers and a special constable have also been commended by the chief constable.
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Apart from Gary and Aggi, other officers observed the dealing by video-link.
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Fourteen other officers were also imprisoned, receiving sentences ranging from two to 25 years.
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There was only one other officer present.
petty
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You can earn advancement to leading cook and then to petty officer cook or caterer.
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That other sailor was later identified as Jonathan Rushin, a 23-year-old petty officer third class.
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He knew nothing about drill, but learned the necessary movements from books and soon gained promotion to chief petty officer .
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A petty officer , his wife and three incredibly well-behaved children were first.
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In all, four sailors were punished and three petty officers , including Wait, were removed from the Salt Lake City.
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Mine hunting director petty officer Simmo Simmons calls up the image on to his table screen.
senior
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Both senior officers had felt it right to come straight to him.
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The two, and a third senior officer , were arrested.
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Adam followed them from the security of the trees, watched the senior officer talking as the others listened and followed him.
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The senior officers would not confide in him; the men took direction from the NCOs and comfort from themselves.
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There were indications that more senior officers had ordered the killings but had negotiated immunity.
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The principal family, Coker, were well-known Parliamentarians and several members were senior officers in the Cromwellian forces.
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Eight other senior air force officers , including Air Force Commander-in-Chief Brig. -Gen.
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This is in addition to the many illicit senior house officer posts uncovered by the task force process and ratified retrospectively.
superior
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He was a man who had mastered himself, and although his manner was informal he was manifestly the superior officer .
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So is lying to a superior officer , whatever the cause.
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There was a third thing: he had caught sight of a superior officer: John Coffin.
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He had been proved mistaken and had probably suffered a somewhat humiliating rebuff from his superior officer .
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That is no way to address your superior officer .
young
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A very young prison officer from Holloway was with me at the court.
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One out of three is expected to quit this year and not enough young officers are signing up to replace them.
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A police car slowed down, the two young officers looked carefully.
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The young man writhing underneath her was another of Vashinov's unnamed young officers .
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A lot of the younger officers tended to be very career orientated, and far heavier and aggressive.
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She was waved on by a sharp-eyed young officer , who boasted he could smell a smuggler from fifty yards away.
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He grinned tiredly at himself, and wondered where the young officer had gone.
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Even the young officers ignored him; he was just that kind of invisible person.
■ NOUN
army
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A feminist might interpret a text very differently from an army officer , for example; or a teenager from his parent.
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She was not one for planning or manoeuvring but confidential reports are kept on Salvation Army officers throughout their careers.
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It was rumoured that an army officer was transferred because of the events.
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However, a similar action by Army officers took place on the following day.
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He's been a farmer, a pilot, a director of coffee plantations and an army officer .
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Two Army officers were shot dead in central Madrid on July 19 and their driver was seriously wounded.
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Sitiveni Rabuka, the Army officer who had led two military coups in 1987.
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Examples of such types of labour are firemen, army officers and policemen.
development
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In addition to preparing for recruitment the development officers began to prepare for the training and employment of support workers.
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Supt Alan Saddler, currently sub-divisional commander for Darlington, moves to headquarters to become force careers development officer .
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United's youth development officer was called in by Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan on Friday and told he was being fired.
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But after some counselling from the development officer the situation improved and the worker was able to continue in post.
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As development officers we were allowed, for simplicity, to accept expenditure up to £200 per week, per person.
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The development officer felt she could not work with them, and they in turn did not welcome the Home Support Project.
education
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To further the necessary changes within the workshop we appointed an education officer and an industrial liaison officer.
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There should be liaison with the staff of the museum, and especially with the museum education officer if there is one.
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It had been further modified to include in its membership all four university resident tutors and six education officers from participating LEAs.
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This would include not only Owen but the education officer responsible for the administration of the units.
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Throughout the year, the education officer will deal with any student problems which arise and help to find teachers for colleges.
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Contact the curator or the education officer , County Museum Woodstock.
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Mr Keith Banks, a principal education officer for Durham, said he had not yet seen the guarantee in writing.
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In overseas centres, the education officer is often more directly involved in organising tuition.
enforcement
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I should be grateful if you would ask your enforcement officer to look into this matter.
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It sent a message to law enforcement officers: Open season on immigrants.
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Law enforcement officers have increased powers to deal with or seize food they suspect is dangerous.
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Rotating law enforcement officers is a textbook concept straight out of police administration 101.
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Yours is that you happen to be the chief law enforcement officer of this Commonwealth.
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In response, President Fillmore issued a proclamation asking citizens to cease interfering with law enforcement officers .
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But law enforcement officers are deliberate -- and frequent -- targets.
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The prosecutors charged eighty-five defendants, including forty-four law enforcement officers .
field
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Since the field officer is a loner, he controls his output to a substantial degree.
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My field officers and adjutant were all dead.
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Our detectives and field officers are to be debriefed Monday night by case supervisors.
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Each district is policed by a field officer responsible to an area supervisor.
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Henry Bergson, an experienced field officer , was assigned to be 3d Brigade night duty officer.
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The field officer , after all, has the power to make a discharger spend a substantial sum of money.
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These senior officers supervise the activities of the one or two assistant field officers also found in most areas.
health
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Prisons are exempt from having regular visits from environmental health officers , but in April 1992 this Crown Immunity will be lifted.
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As a health officer I am opposed to the use of illicit drugs.
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Eventually, environmental health officers seized Mary Carruthers' stereo system and speakers after a petition from neighbours.
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This survey differs from previous ones in that the department brought in private surveyors to work with environmental health officers .
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Previously, health officers had done the entire survey.
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Complained Environmental health officers have been called in and are now treating the problem.
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And Northamptonshire's environmental health officers are backing up that message.
house
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There is therefore a danger that no one consultant will take specific responsibility for the house officer throughout the whole six months.
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Assessment is likely to have educational value, however, only if the outcome is fed back to the senior house officer .
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In previous years her job has been filled by a preregistration house officer .
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Nineteen said they would appreciate occasional seminars at which they could meet other house officer trainers.
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Firstly, there was wide agreement that house officer training is unsatisfactory.
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He was senior house officer in paediatrics at the District Hospital.
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Who will provide the cover for house officers attending their education sessions?
intelligence
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It was necessary, he had told him, for an Intelligence officer to have private quarters.
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In order to have an effective intelligence officer , he would have to have a little brown blood.
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The adjutant, the doctor and the intelligence officer sat and watched from a safe distance.
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The helicopter crashed in June 1994 with the loss of all four crew and 25 intelligence officers from Northern Ireland on board.
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In recent years the lifestyle of the intelligence officer has acquired a glamorous image thanks to the literary world and the screen.
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In 1642-3 he apparently served as an intelligence officer under the Long Parliament's committee of safety.
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Instead an intelligence officer had ploughed through Mills' personal effects and leafed through a random selection of files.
investment
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Katherine Garrett-Cox became chief investment officer at Aberdeen Asset Management only last month.
liaison
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Focussed semi-structured interviews of industrial and public sector research staff, liaison officers and management will be conducted.
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Of course, the battalion commander with his artillery liaison officer was usually flying overhead.
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The museum operates a schools liaison officer network for London.
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The liaison officer and local police were on the nearby road, ready to stop the traffic.
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A member of the primary health care team has now been designated liaison officer and all messages are passed to her.
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Now a chief liaison officer is to go to the area to negotiate.
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It is to spend more resources on social and community facilities and to employ community liaison officers .
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At this point I may require you to visit the scene of the occurrence accompanied by my liaison officers .
police
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He made it very clear he would like to kill police officers .
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Anti-crime efforts including federal aid for hiring 100, 000 new local police officers .
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They risk their lives to do so. Police officers are entitled to the protection of the community they serve.
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They cite newspaper reports of police officers wearing gloves even during AIDS-related political demonstrations.
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A police officer armed with a semi-automatic gun stood guard.
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Their deaths brought to 10 the number of municipal police officers killed in Tijuana since August 1996, all of them shot.
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That verdict did not implicate individual police officers .
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Some of the arrested and at-large suspects are former police officers .
prison
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The Northern Ireland Office said ten prison officers and three inmates were injured in the all night clashes.
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Both local and national industrial action by prison officers has been a recurrent event.
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It is worth stressing that all of this teaching is done by the prisoners themselves rather than by prison officers .
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Item 3 is a button, as the words tell us, from the uniform of a prison officer .
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He was one of a handful of men trusted to work unsupervised - a mistake say prison officers .
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Then the prison officers put a black cloth over the condemned man's head.
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We need more staff. Prison officers hit back at critical report.
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The brutalising environment that ferments prison disorder also stimulates industrial unrest among prison officers .
probation
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The system will also suffer severe difficulties if it lacks legitimacy with its own employees, including prison staff and probation officers .
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Carolyn worked the North Branch as a probation officer .
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He later confessed to his probation officer .
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The following morning, Hicks was interviewed by probation officer Hilary Brown.
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Chief dies: Alec Nuttall, former chief probation officer of Teesside and then Cleveland, has died aged 68.
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One day after the riot, probation officers and state and county investigators interviewed children and the administrators.
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Some were probation officers in training and some from County Hall, who had not yet specialised, but were hoping to.
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The plan will pay for the hiring of 37 probation officers , over three years, to staff the programs.
safety
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Gloucestershire's road safety officer says the vast majority were due to driver error.
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Martin's campaign war chest enjoys strong support from industry, including mine managers and safety officers .
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We also get a number of visits at the playgroup, including the local road safety officer who talks to the children.
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I attended this particular gathering at the invitation of a Department of Public Safety officer whom I met last month.
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Health and safety officers have launched an investigation.
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This weekend road safety officers will offer free checks at a car safety centre in Milton Keynes.
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But safety officers say that's a small price to pay to save a childs life.
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From a safety officer at a storage and haulage firm.
training
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The training officer of one firm was temporarily made dealing manager.
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The training officer lifted the phone, and the buzz in the room subsided in a split second.
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The draft information items were planned for September 1987 to enable training packs to be despatched to training officers in January.
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The evidence certainly suggests that full-time training officers , who can spend all their time on training, are rare.
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This training officer assumed responsibility for the sackings.
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Working closely with two medical co-ordinators and a training officer , she supervises Cornwall's child protection procedures.
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The training officer of one licensed dealer issued photocopied versions of the text to all dealers.
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The training committee continued to advise the training officer , but all real initiatives were overturned or dismissed by the management committee.
warrant
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The more senior ranks, such as sergeants, warrant officers , captains and majors, were all in post.
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A warrant officer is appointed, not commissioned, and specializes in a particular skill.
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The incident follows the death less than two weeks ago of a marine warrant officer taking part in the same exercise.
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They contain modest one-to three-room flats for lieutenants, majors and warrant officers and their families.
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The chef warrant officer was every bit as odious as Ingrid had been told to expect.
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The warrant officer was speechless, but not for long and he thundered at him as he had on me a few minutes before.
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Ruben Marx, then a security branch warrant officer .
■ VERB
command
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I commanded an officers training corps.
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Upon orders from his commanding officer , Nickerson went to the rear.
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Similar concerns exist about the respect that the armed forces chief, Admiral Widodo, commands among senior army officers .
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Phyllis Blanton, commanding officer of the Monterey Coast Guard station.
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Twenty other Phoenix officers who bought the weapons were cleared because they had proper authorization for the weapons from commanding officers.
operate
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Mr Bradshaw was chief operating officer and chief financial officer.
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Ivester will remain chief operating officer for the time being, a spokeswoman added.
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He currently holds the post of chief operating officer .
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Also, Gergory S.. Daily, 37, previously vice president and chief operating officer , was named president.
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They may even advance to peak corporate positions such as chief operating officer or chief executive officer.
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In large organizations, senior managers often carry such titles as president, chief executive officer , or chief operating officer.
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Count the chief operating officers of two marquee high-technology players as victims of a recent slump in the computer market.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hardened criminal/police officer etc
officer/executive etc material
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After being promoted to Sergeant-Major, Cottle was summoned before a board to see if he were officer material .
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Apart from the player's recent dip in form I don't believe he is officer material .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a Marine officer
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Colonel Gary G. Mahle is the commanding officer here.
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Crane has been an officer since 1966.
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He's an officer in the US Marines.
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the chief financial officer
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the government contracting officer
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The investigation will be led by Officer Murdoch.
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What's the problem, officer ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A police car slowed down, the two young officers looked carefully.
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Apple Computer reached outside the personal computer industry yesterday for a new chief financial officer .
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He was succeeded by Robert Greber, who had served as president and chief operating officer .
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It took around fifty officers two hours to bring it under control.
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One of the officers showed me into the aeroplane and himself sat down in the pilot's seat.
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Ruben Marx, then a security branch warrant officer .
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She was not one for planning or manoeuvring but confidential reports are kept on Salvation Army officers throughout their careers.