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- noun military, navy A
commissioned officer of the navy whoserank is immediately below that of alieutenant .
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Examples
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Jeffrey Paul Delisle, a 40-year-old sub-lieutenant, appeared in a provincial court in Halifax, on Canada's eastern coast, on Monday on two charges related to communicating information to a foreign entity, according to a court official.
Canadian Naval Officer Charged With Leaks Alistair MacDonald 2012
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He was commissioned sub-lieutenant on October 6, 1914, and after submarine officer training, on January 15, 1915, he was promoted lieutenant.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Twenty miles out to sea a tired sub-lieutenant shoved his way into the cramped, dimly lit listening-cabin.
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In the imagination of the sub-lieutenant there came a vivid picture of a German listener in a similar, dim cabin curved to the shape of the hull, slowly turning a similar condenser knob upon a similar apparatus.
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In the last war he had himself been a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service; he knew a good deal about the difficulty of identifying ships from the air.
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She also carried large quantities of weapons and ammunition while engaging the enemy on numerous occasions '; Ioulia Zouzou, sub-lieutenant of the infantry in the Sixteenth Brigade, gained a decoration for her exploits as a machine-gun sniper; Stella Datsina destroyed enemy artillery with her' pancer '; while Vaia Karabaziou was mentioned for her precision as a mortar-aiming officer.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Joubert was appointed its adjutant-general, and Pontmercy sub-lieutenant.
Les Miserables 2008
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The following month, he enrolled as a sub-lieutenant at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and in November joined HMS Norfolk, a guided-missile destroyer.
Prince Charles’ Birthday: 60 Facts by Sarah Hughes « Diana Mandache's Weblog 2008
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Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than five men who knew each other.
Les Miserables 2008
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Mme. de Bargeton went to a ridotto given to the town by a regiment, and fell in love with an officer of a good family, a sub-lieutenant, to whom the crafty Napoleon had given a glimpse of the baton of a Marshal of France.
Two Poets 2007
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