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Definition of Flag officer

1. Noun. A senior naval officer above the rank of captain.

Definition of Flag officer

1. Noun. A naval officer with the rank of rear admiral or above, such officers are entitled to fly a personal flag, especially on the flagship. ¹

2. Noun. (''US military'', informal) In addition to naval officers of Navy and the Coast Guard, a general officer in the Army, Marines, or Air Force with the rank of brigadier general or higher. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flag Officer

Literary usage of Flag officer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1908)
"The chief of staff, flag lieutenant, clerk, and aids shall constitute the personal staff of a flag officer. "Sec. 344. (1) A flag officer, when ordered to a ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"2dly, That a flag-officer, com- "to his own use the said l-8th of the prizes taken by the ships and vessels " mander-in-chief, where there is but one ..."

3. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"And when Lord St. Vincent, a flag officer, commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, returned to England by leave of the admiralty, for the recovery of his ..."

4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Formerly the captain of a flagship was called a " flag-officer. ... Flag-officer. Either an admiral, vice-admiral, rear-admiral, or commodore. ..."

5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"When the Flag-Officer was disabled, the command of the Virginia devolved upon her executive and ... The terms of commendation used by the Flag- Officer, ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Henry Blackstone, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1827)
"flag-officer is sent out to re-inforce a superior flag-officer tit , ~ " Jamaica or elsewhere, the superior flag-officer shall have no ..."

7. History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the by John Thomas Scharf (1894)
""Flag-officer Tatnall ordered the anchor of the Savannah hove up when the enemy had advanced to within a mile and a half of him, and steaming up to ward ..."

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