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Definition of sergeant in English: sergeantnoun ˈsɑːdʒ(ə)ntˈsɑrdʒənt 1A rank of non-commissioned officer in the army or air force, above corporal and below staff sergeant. 陆军(或空军)中士 Example sentencesExamples - "Our air superiority is incredible," a marine sergeant told Associated Press.
- This cadre platoon consisted not only of more senior staff sergeants but promising corporal/specialists and sergeants as well.
- She worked as a cook in the airmen's and sergeant's mess.
- The person in distress was an Army sergeant who had been on land-navigation and survival training in the mountains of West Virginia.
- The U.S. military is the world's best because its sergeants and warrant officers are without equal.
- In spite of that, he was given an overall pass, along with eight other soldiers, who included a sergeant and warrant officer first class, who had also failed aspects of the test.
- It has 3000 soldiers, including privates, sergeants and officers.
- There are paintings and photographs of generals, lieutenants, sergeants, privates, secretaries and commanders-in-chief.
- On the ‘digital’ battlefield there is a real likelihood that brigade commanders will talk directly to sergeants or corporals commanding sections and that intermediate officers will be sidelined.
- I am a female sergeant in the Army National Guard, and a single parent of one.
- The final section of the book covers the beginning of the resistance from below, among the corporals and sergeants of the old army, Islamic activists and Arab nationalists.
- The point out that it takes years, not months, to produced a trained, effective infantry soldier and more years to season sergeants and warrant officers.
- Corporals, instead of sergeants, lead the terminal crews, some with only two to three years in the military.
- Lessons have different levels of difficulty to reflect the roles of either a sergeant or a warrant officer.
- It is us, staff sergeants and sergeants, who don't want to take the time to train and mentor soldiers.
- We must embed jointness as a leadership trait from sergeant to colonel.
- Because of the increased number of volunteer soldiers, the ministry will phase out recruitment of non-commissioned officers, including air force and army sergeants and naval petty officers.
- The Defence People Committee has endorsed an initiative to offer completion bonuses to selected corporals and sergeants in three critical trades.
- But don't worry, this isn't boot camp, where the sergeant barks at you all day long.
- The heart of any Army is not its generals, but its young sergeants, captains and colonels.
- 1.1British A police officer ranking below an inspector.
〈英〉巡佐;警察小队长 Example sentencesExamples - You can't have it both ways and look fondly back to when a sergeant and four policemen lived and worked in the community.
- Led by an inspector, each Local Policing Team will have its own sergeants and constables and will be accountable for police performance and responding to community concerns.
- The Chief Constable, who had already decided that the sergeant should be dismissed, sat next to the chairman of the appeals committee and remained present at the deliberations.
- Some of the things which I said in relation to the range of responsibilities that people at my level have apply also to sergeants and inspectors.
- Control was through a rigid hierarchy with the police commissioner at its apex; officious and often severe discipline was exercised by inspectors and sergeants.
- But there are still ten constables, two sergeants and a detective inspector operating from the incident room at a secret location in Bradford.
- Outside the front gate, two policemen with an over-enthusiastic sergeant stood and looked at the gnomes, who looked back, curious but still as stone.
- A 15-strong team of Lothian and Borders police officers, including a chief inspector, two sergeants and 12 police constables will police the new building.
- What I would say is if you get a conflict between a sergeant and another sergeant or a police constable, it is up then to the borough commander to try and resolve that.
- Since the launch, the town centre has been covered by placing one sergeant, five police constables and two special constables in the town centre, with back-up from police cars.
- I am a police officer, a police sergeant with the Cleveland Constabulary, and I am currently the General Secretary of the Police Federation of England and Wales.
- It presupposes that if you become an inspector or a sergeant, you ought to become a good manager.
- Bradford's public is suffering because of a shortage of police sergeants and inspectors, it was claimed today.
- A sergeant or a constable of police would make a decision, would he or she not, whether to prosecute for a traffic offence?
- After I produced identification, the police waited for their sergeant to arrive before placing me under arrest without stating the charge.
- I am not sure about the petty offences, for example, the stealing of the police sergeant's badge that occurred on 23 May.
- Constables and sergeants wore white gloves, and inspectors and the more senior ranks wore black or brown leather gloves.
- In the team will also be three detective constables and a sergeant who will be dedicated to tracking the addicts through the criminal justice system
- The decision that this should happen was taken by a police sergeant.
- Resupplied with coffee and fruit cake, if very little in the way of useful information, the chief inspector and his sergeant went on their way after half an hour.
- 1.2US A police officer ranking below a lieutenant.
〈英〉巡佐;警察小队长 Example sentencesExamples - A sergeant detailed the penalties facing bartenders who keep pouring.
- It was the Modesto police sergeant who thought of the idea.
- The mother was visibly relieved when the sergeant told her it wasn't serious.
- I might have continued had not the sergeant in charge flung open the door.
- Perhaps a half-dozen other cops, including a couple of sergeants and their white-shirted boss, wandered around the park.
- At the Police station, a sergeant takes down my story and informs me I've been the victim of online Identity theft.
- The sergeant was behind the wheel of the police car.
- My sergeant fired and the suspect stopped raising his pistol and tossed it to the floor in front of him.
- He made his way to the terminal where a dark-haired female sergeant worked the station.
- Mike stood at attention until the closest sergeant reached him with handcuffs.
- Before long, they were recognized at a truck stop by an alert police sergeant in Indiana.
- So I was locked in with my cousin in jail until the sergeant on duty released us.
- It seemed almost incomprehensible how much his life had changed and all of the things that had happened since he had retired from his job as police sergeant.
- Three sergeants taken off patrol duty for the rest of the night accompanied their every bathroom visit.
- A sergeant at the police station cut hair from his head, neck, and part of his left shoulder blade.
- The latter was on her cell phone when she spotted Amanda being ushered toward a counter, where a female sergeant was stationed.
- Behind the desk, a lieutenant, a sergeant, and a police officer were conversing.
- One day when I was about 14, a police sergeant saw me drinking a beer on the street.
- That year Dad had got his promotion to sergeant at the station and the party was a little bigger than usual, which wasn't much but something.
- I was stopped by a sergeant with the Richmond Heights, Missouri, police department.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French sergent, from Latin servient- 'serving', from the verb servire. Early use was as a general term meaning 'attendant, servant' and 'common soldier'; the term was later applied to specific official roles. Sergeant is from Old French sergent, from Latin servire ‘serve’. Early use was as a term meaning ‘attendant, servant’ and ‘common soldier’; the term was later applied to specific official roles. The Middle English word serjeant is a variant commonly used in legal contexts.
Definition of sergeant in US English: sergeantnounˈsɑrdʒəntˈsärjənt 1A noncommissioned officer in the armed forces, in particular (in the US Army or Marine Corps) an NCO ranking above corporal and below staff sergeant, or (in the US Air Force) an NCO ranking above airman and below staff sergeant. Example sentencesExamples - We must embed jointness as a leadership trait from sergeant to colonel.
- It has 3000 soldiers, including privates, sergeants and officers.
- Because of the increased number of volunteer soldiers, the ministry will phase out recruitment of non-commissioned officers, including air force and army sergeants and naval petty officers.
- Lessons have different levels of difficulty to reflect the roles of either a sergeant or a warrant officer.
- "Our air superiority is incredible," a marine sergeant told Associated Press.
- The Defence People Committee has endorsed an initiative to offer completion bonuses to selected corporals and sergeants in three critical trades.
- There are paintings and photographs of generals, lieutenants, sergeants, privates, secretaries and commanders-in-chief.
- She worked as a cook in the airmen's and sergeant's mess.
- The U.S. military is the world's best because its sergeants and warrant officers are without equal.
- The person in distress was an Army sergeant who had been on land-navigation and survival training in the mountains of West Virginia.
- It is us, staff sergeants and sergeants, who don't want to take the time to train and mentor soldiers.
- But don't worry, this isn't boot camp, where the sergeant barks at you all day long.
- I am a female sergeant in the Army National Guard, and a single parent of one.
- In spite of that, he was given an overall pass, along with eight other soldiers, who included a sergeant and warrant officer first class, who had also failed aspects of the test.
- The point out that it takes years, not months, to produced a trained, effective infantry soldier and more years to season sergeants and warrant officers.
- Corporals, instead of sergeants, lead the terminal crews, some with only two to three years in the military.
- The heart of any Army is not its generals, but its young sergeants, captains and colonels.
- This cadre platoon consisted not only of more senior staff sergeants but promising corporal/specialists and sergeants as well.
- On the ‘digital’ battlefield there is a real likelihood that brigade commanders will talk directly to sergeants or corporals commanding sections and that intermediate officers will be sidelined.
- The final section of the book covers the beginning of the resistance from below, among the corporals and sergeants of the old army, Islamic activists and Arab nationalists.
- 1.1British A police officer ranking below an inspector.
〈英〉巡佐;警察小队长 Example sentencesExamples - Led by an inspector, each Local Policing Team will have its own sergeants and constables and will be accountable for police performance and responding to community concerns.
- A sergeant or a constable of police would make a decision, would he or she not, whether to prosecute for a traffic offence?
- Outside the front gate, two policemen with an over-enthusiastic sergeant stood and looked at the gnomes, who looked back, curious but still as stone.
- Control was through a rigid hierarchy with the police commissioner at its apex; officious and often severe discipline was exercised by inspectors and sergeants.
- Some of the things which I said in relation to the range of responsibilities that people at my level have apply also to sergeants and inspectors.
- It presupposes that if you become an inspector or a sergeant, you ought to become a good manager.
- After I produced identification, the police waited for their sergeant to arrive before placing me under arrest without stating the charge.
- I am a police officer, a police sergeant with the Cleveland Constabulary, and I am currently the General Secretary of the Police Federation of England and Wales.
- The Chief Constable, who had already decided that the sergeant should be dismissed, sat next to the chairman of the appeals committee and remained present at the deliberations.
- In the team will also be three detective constables and a sergeant who will be dedicated to tracking the addicts through the criminal justice system
- Constables and sergeants wore white gloves, and inspectors and the more senior ranks wore black or brown leather gloves.
- What I would say is if you get a conflict between a sergeant and another sergeant or a police constable, it is up then to the borough commander to try and resolve that.
- You can't have it both ways and look fondly back to when a sergeant and four policemen lived and worked in the community.
- A 15-strong team of Lothian and Borders police officers, including a chief inspector, two sergeants and 12 police constables will police the new building.
- But there are still ten constables, two sergeants and a detective inspector operating from the incident room at a secret location in Bradford.
- The decision that this should happen was taken by a police sergeant.
- I am not sure about the petty offences, for example, the stealing of the police sergeant's badge that occurred on 23 May.
- Since the launch, the town centre has been covered by placing one sergeant, five police constables and two special constables in the town centre, with back-up from police cars.
- Bradford's public is suffering because of a shortage of police sergeants and inspectors, it was claimed today.
- Resupplied with coffee and fruit cake, if very little in the way of useful information, the chief inspector and his sergeant went on their way after half an hour.
- 1.2US A police officer ranking below a lieutenant.
〈英〉巡佐;警察小队长 Example sentencesExamples - A sergeant detailed the penalties facing bartenders who keep pouring.
- Before long, they were recognized at a truck stop by an alert police sergeant in Indiana.
- That year Dad had got his promotion to sergeant at the station and the party was a little bigger than usual, which wasn't much but something.
- One day when I was about 14, a police sergeant saw me drinking a beer on the street.
- My sergeant fired and the suspect stopped raising his pistol and tossed it to the floor in front of him.
- Three sergeants taken off patrol duty for the rest of the night accompanied their every bathroom visit.
- The sergeant was behind the wheel of the police car.
- A sergeant at the police station cut hair from his head, neck, and part of his left shoulder blade.
- Behind the desk, a lieutenant, a sergeant, and a police officer were conversing.
- The latter was on her cell phone when she spotted Amanda being ushered toward a counter, where a female sergeant was stationed.
- The mother was visibly relieved when the sergeant told her it wasn't serious.
- Perhaps a half-dozen other cops, including a couple of sergeants and their white-shirted boss, wandered around the park.
- I might have continued had not the sergeant in charge flung open the door.
- It seemed almost incomprehensible how much his life had changed and all of the things that had happened since he had retired from his job as police sergeant.
- Mike stood at attention until the closest sergeant reached him with handcuffs.
- He made his way to the terminal where a dark-haired female sergeant worked the station.
- I was stopped by a sergeant with the Richmond Heights, Missouri, police department.
- It was the Modesto police sergeant who thought of the idea.
- So I was locked in with my cousin in jail until the sergeant on duty released us.
- At the Police station, a sergeant takes down my story and informs me I've been the victim of online Identity theft.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French sergent, from Latin servient- ‘serving’, from the verb servire. Early use was as a general term meaning ‘attendant, servant’ and ‘common soldier’; the term was later applied to specific official roles. |