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chief petty officer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English

Syllables
chief pet-ty of-fi-cer
IPA
38
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A warrant officer belonging to one of the two classes of chief petty officer: chief petty officer first class and chief petty officer second class.

Canadian usage

noun

A non-commissioned officer in the Royal Navy, ranking above petty officer and below warrant officer class 2.

British usage

noun

A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above petty officer first class and below senior chief petty officer.

American usage

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Military.

Inflected Forms

chief petty officers (plural)

Phrases

senior chief petty officer master chief petty officer petty officer

Frequently Paired Words

petty officer

Synonyms

CPO

Questions

What does chief petty officer mean?
A warrant officer belonging to one of the two classes of chief petty officer: chief petty officer first class and chief petty officer second class.

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