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Quartermaster

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An officer responsible for the food, clothing, and equipment of troops.

n. A petty officer responsible for the steering of a ship.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.

n. A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.

n. A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Milit, a regimental staff-officer, of the relative rank of lieutenant, whose duties are to superintend the assignment of quarters and the distribution of clothing, fuel, and other supplies, to have charge of the barracks, tents, etc., of a regiment, and to keep the regimental stores on the march: he directs the marking out of camp.

n. Nautical, a petty officer who has charge of the steering of the ship, the signals and soundings, and the running lights, leads, colors, log, compasses, etc., as an assistant to the navigator.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops

Word Usage

"McKevitt was the Provisional IRA's so-called 'quartermaster' until the late 1990s during which he was in charge of its guns, explosives and ammunition dumps."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

army officer

Cross Reference

quartermaster's department chief quartermaster

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