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Definition of Line officer
1. Noun. A commissioned officer with combat units (not a staff officer or a supply officer).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Line Officer
Literary usage of Line officer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1896)
"One-tenth of the vacancies occurring each year, in the lowest commissioned grade
of line officer, shall be reserved for the promotion of warrant officers. ..."
2. Napoleon; a History of the Art of War by Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1907)
"English line officer. At Toulouse Soult probably disposed of over thirty-five
thousand men and eighty guns; the allies had near fifty thou- ..."
3. Pamphlets: United States Navy] (1879)
"... claim of the line officer, to know sufficient of all of these professions to
enable him to assume their direction and control, is simply preposterous. ..."
4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1895)
"The line officer receives his education from the Government, ... The line officer
can count his time before the medical officer is able to do so, ..."
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