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lieutenant

noun

The lowest commissioned officer rank or ranks in many military forces.

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The word 'lieutenant' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a rank of officer in the military or law enforcement, and can also be used more generally to refer to a person holding a certain position of authority or responsibility. For example, "The lieutenant was tasked with leading his squad into battle."

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He was chased for "catching the eye" of a lieutenant and running away.

Inside were four armed SS men, one of whom – an Untersturmführer, or second lieutenant, was shouting and swearing at him.

On Tuesday, the Guardian reported a further complaint made against the lieutenant in September 2013 by Andrew McAleer, the husband of Rice's former partner Karyn McAleer, who alleged he witnessed Rice holding Karyn's stolen mail and attempting to throw it into a public garbage can.

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If loyalty to his line managers counts for anything then Cook remains an entirely steadfast lieutenant, defending, even in the aftermath of the whitewash, what has looked with every defeat an increasingly lopsided Ashes tour party.

Former NSA director lieutenant general Kenneth Minihan has taken the opposite tack and is helping create the next generation of tech security firms.

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"This is a disturbing accusation of sexual assault," lieutenant-colonel Francis Bolduc said in a statement.

He fought in north-west Europe with the Honourable Artillery Company, rose to lieutenant-colonel and was awarded the military MBE and mentioned in dispatches.

Earlier, Nkome told South Africa's Star newspaper his clients were also concerned by reports that lieutenant-general Zukiswa Mbombo, the North West province police commissioner, intends to retire at the end of the month.

She is equally good as the teenager with the crush on Cary Grant in The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (aka Bachelor Knight, 1947) and worked for Ford again in Fort Apache (1948) as martinet lieutenant-colonel Henry Fonda's daughter, Philadelphia Thursday, probably the best film she made.

A lieutenant-colonel, Yacouba Isaac Zida, the second-in-command at the presidential guard, challenged him and won the backing of other senior officers.

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