first lieutenant

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first lieutenant

1. A commissioned rank in the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marines that is above second lieutenant and below captain.

2. One who holds this rank.

3. A lieutenant in the U.S. Navy or Coast Guard, responsible for maintaining the ship's exterior and for management of the ship's deck.

first lieutenant

1. (Military) the officer responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of a warship, esp the executive officer of a smaller ship in the Royal Navy

2. (Military) an officer holding commissioned rank in the US Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, or in certain other forces, senior to a second lieutenant and junior to a captain

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Noun

first lieutenant - a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a 2nd lieutenant and below a captain

1st lieutenant

lieutenant - a commissioned military officer

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Captain Benwick had some time ago been first lieutenant of the Laconia; and the account which Captain Wentworth had given of him, on his return from Lyme before, his warm praise of him as an excellent young man and an officer, whom he had always valued highly, which must have stamped him well in the esteem of every listener, had been followed by a little history of his private life, which rendered him perfectly interesting in the eyes of all the ladies.

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But McArdle was his first lieutenant, and it was he that we knew.

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