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Noncommissioned

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Non`com`mis´sioned
a.1.Not having a commission.
Noncommissioned officer
(Mil.) a subordinate officer not appointed by a commission from the chief executive or supreme authority of the State; but by the Secretary of War or by the commanding officer of the regiment.
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Adj.1.noncommissioned - (of military officers) appointed from enlisted personnel
commissioned - (of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above


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The soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one seemed to hear left.
They were brought in by Flopson and Millers, much as though those two noncommissioned officers had been recruiting somewhere for children and had enlisted these: while Mrs.
I divided the forces into divisions, regiments, battalions, companies, and even to platoons and sections, appointing the full complement of officers and noncommissioned officers.
 
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