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officer

[aw-fuh-ser, of-uh-] / ˈɔ fə sər, ˈɒf ə- /
NOUN
person who has high position in
Synonyms
STRONGEST
agent chief civil servant deputy director executive leader manager official representative
STRONG
President appointee bureaucrat dignitary functionary head magistrate officeholder
WEAK
organization administrator public servant
Antonyms
STRONGEST
employee
NOUN
person in law enforcement
Synonyms
STRONGEST
captain deputy detective police police officer
STRONG
arm badge centurion cop flatfoot noncom sergeant sheriff
WEAK
black and white mounty

Example Sentences

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Carter has been with Dow since 1994 and has been the company’s chief operating officer since December 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

In the short term, OpenAI is focused on letting humans act as "orchestrators" while AI models do the "heavy lifting," chief research officer Mark Chen said at the briefing.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

This month, the company said Tony Bignell, its chief innovation officer, would leave after less than a year in the position.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

Johnson, himself a former CIA officer who spent more than two decades with the agency, never publicly identified the two U.S. casualties as intelligence operators.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

I assumed that was why the officer had shown up—to find out why I was absent.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse