Definition of lieutenant in English:

lieutenant

noun lɛfˈtɛnəntluˈtɛnənt

1A deputy or substitute acting for a superior.
副官，副手
one of the Prime Minister's most trusted lieutenants
Example sentencesExamples
- But I regard you as a lieutenant available to assist as and when required.
- Certainly a number of his lieutenants and cohorts have been captured in recent months.
- Nasser dominated Egypt post-1952 and Sadat served as a trusted lieutenant.
- The elusiveness of the leader and his lieutenants has gnawed at officials and has cast doubt on their claims of having disrupted the group.
- The lieutenant stood up to face his superior without fear and without respect.
- The only problem was Hunter never really knew what his trusted lieutenant was thinking.
- Eventually he gets promoted up to being a lieutenant and becomes the right-hand man to the family boss.
- His vast influence in the north-east made Charles I appoint him king's lieutenant in the north.
- There the saluting officer was Major Edmund Gartside, who is deputy lord lieutenant of Manchester.
- While he sits at the apex, it is likely that his top deputies and their lieutenants are largely responsible for coordinating the activities of the far-flung cells.
- Those invited were picked partly by the Prince and partly from nominations by lord lieutenants, the Queen's representatives in different parts of the country, as well as charities involved in the rural community.
- Thereafter he was Edward's chief lieutenant in the north.
- He would delegate to his trusted lieutenants and then leave them alone to do their jobs.
- He left some time after the guard was set up, and left his lieutenant in charge.
- Since human beings (unlike animals, or trees) are created in the image of God, and possess powers of reason which are a reflection of God's, they may act in the world as delegates or lieutenants of God.
- She also looks fabulous enough to make a loyal lieutenant betray the hand that fed him.
- It's as if his on-the-field lieutenant is exempt from being substituted, is exempt too from criticism.
- A raft of top bosses and small-fry lieutenants have been nabbed since then.
- In 1978 he was appointed deputy lord lieutenant for Wiltshire.
- Also, it enables the " benevolent dictator " and " trusted lieutenants " structures to emerge.
Synonyms
deputy, second in command, right-hand man/woman, number two, assistant, aide, wingman, henchman, henchwoman, subordinate
informal sidekick
North American informal body man
1. 1.1 A rank of officer in the British army, above second lieutenant and below captain.
  （英国陆军）中尉
  Example sentencesExamples
  Are the results as crisp and orderly as when the colonel commands the lieutenant?
  Five years later, he was appointed a second lieutenant in the army's Topographical Engineers.
  The team, made up of one major, four captains, one lieutenant, one first sergeant, and three sergeants first class, began the arduous task of preparing the foreign soldiers for combat.
  Joseph Tilly was a military man and became a lieutenant in the artillery.
  There are paintings and photographs of generals, lieutenants, sergeants, privates, secretaries and commanders-in-chief.
  The company commander thought the new lieutenant and staff sergeant were scapegoats for superior officers in their chain of command.
  He was commissioned in mid-1944 and made flight lieutenant two years later.
  Michael quickly rose through the ranks as orderly sergeant, first lieutenant and captain.
  A lieutenant or staff sergeant can easily find themselves in charge of a $25,000 cash monthly field-ordering officer account.
  And the lieutenant was the leader of the platoon.
  While at William and Mary in 1776, Monroe was commissioned an infantry lieutenant in the 3rd Virginia Regiment.
  Mr Long, a former flight lieutenant, was based at RAF Lyneham from 1962 until 1994.
  I served with outstanding female officers as an Army military police lieutenant and captain - officers who were equal or superior to me in every way.
  He was commissioned a second lieutenant through the Officer Candidate School program in 1969.
  He was commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduation in 1972 from the U.S. Military Academy.
  Although they had lost a loyal lieutenant, the battle was not over.
  They are scheduled to graduate from the Royal Military College as lieutenants in the Australian Army on Saturday June 22.
  The young lieutenant later became Lord Roberts and commander-in-chief of the Indian army.
  High academic rank brought Jackson assignment as a lieutenant in the 3rd US Artillery.
  He served as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force bomber command until 1947.
2. 1.2 A rank of officer in the navy, above sub lieutenant and below lieutenant commander.
  （英国陆军）中尉
  Example sentencesExamples
  Initially the Navy had only two ranks, lieutenant and captain; flag ranks were not established until the Civil War.
  He reportedly invited a union official home to personally inspect his Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts, awarded for his combat duty as a Navy lieutenant.
  He was a surgeon lieutenant in the navy and a major in the special forces for the sultan of Oman.
  He has commanded in every rank from lieutenant to vice admiral, and has flown his flag in all three of the Navy's aircraft carriers.
  Sir James has commanded in every rank from lieutenant to vice-admiral.
  During the second world war he served in the Royal Navy as surgeon lieutenant, escorting convoys in the north Atlantic on HMS Maplin, a converted merchant ship which catapulted Hurricanes into combat.
  In September 1945 I was a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Navy in Ceylon when I was sent to Sumatra with a naval landing party to Belawan Deli, the port for Medan, the principal city in the northern part of the island.
  The two former military officers (Woodward served as a lieutenant in the Navy) have been amigos for more than a dozen years.
  A Navy lieutenant in France broadcasted information and live entertainment to troops accompanying President Wilson to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
  He was a Navy lieutenant who fought in real battles.
  I was a naval gunfire officer in the Vietnam War - a Navy lieutenant serving in the 7th Marine Regiment.
  As a Royal Navy lieutenant, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for navigating unchartered waters off the Burmese coast.
  Nuclear propulsion pay will now be received by sub lieutenants and lieutenants at category A levels on completion of their engineer officer of the watch board.
  Appointed first lieutenant in the Continental Navy in 1775, Jones received the command of the Ranger in 1777.
  He served two tours as a lieutenant in the navy in Vietnam between December 1967 and April 1969, when he returned to the US with three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star.
  Refusing exemption, he had joined the navy as a lieutenant and was about to take charge of the Admiralty's Educational Film Unit.
  As a lieutenant in the Navy, I put my letter of resignation in a year before the end of my commitment.
  As a Navy lieutenant during World War II, he introduced to the U.S. Navy the importance of knowing how to swim.
  Lieutenants were just lieutenants, without the division of sub-lieutenants, but their seniority was all-important, and taken from the Navy list.
  Who makes up and then runs current innovation efforts, lieutenants or admirals?
3. 1.3 (in the US) a police officer next in rank below captain.
  （美国）中尉警官
  Example sentencesExamples
  The task force leader, a sheriff's lieutenant, said the number of people vulnerable to identity theft in the case could reach 500,000.
  The fire department lieutenant and the police supervisor led Eric to a parked cruiser, where they pumped him for information.
  According to the Independent, a police lieutenant declared at the hotel yesterday that he had stationed snipers around the building and would kill anyone who attempted to leave.
  Some of the great glories of science, including many who have adorned the non-physical sciences, have been as innocent of metaphysical theory as so many police lieutenants.
  They had never expressed pride when I had graduated from the academy and been commissioned as a lieutenant.
  ‘I only had a pistol with me,’ said a police lieutenant.
  In a separate incident, guerrillas killed a police lieutenant in the same city.
  A lot has been made of that fact, but he was putting the question to the police lieutenant this morning.
  The police lieutenant who handled the case of our intruder called and informed me that the man who broke into our house was found dead in his jail cell.
  As a Shawnee police department lieutenant explained to reporters, the transparent tape performed as advertised.
  A volunteer Buffalo police lieutenant also lectured on awareness and how to avoid getting attacked.
  She is a 52-year-old retired D.C. police lieutenant and the oldest U.S. athlete on the team.
  After a portentous prologue, the film shifts five years ahead, showing him in his new position as lieutenant in the citizen police force.
  She was eager to see the damage for herself, even though her husband, a police lieutenant, warned her how bad it was.
  On Tuesday I called the lieutenant in charge of the buy-back program for some more information.
  ‘We're in a state of high alert,’ said one police lieutenant.
  Back there he plays catch with his father, Mark, a police lieutenant in Carrollton, Texas.
  The principal made a call to the police captain or lieutenant, and said, I've got a drug issue here.
  No one would question the sight of a military police lieutenant taking his gear from one place to another.
  I was strapped onto a backboard and placed on the front of a boat with an injured police lieutenant, a firefighter, and a few walking wounded.

Usage

In the normal British pronunciation of lieutenant the first syllable sounds like lef-. In the standard US pronunciation the first syllable, in contrast, rhymes with do. It is difficult to explain where the f in the British pronunciation comes from. Probably, at some point before the 19th century, the u at the end of Old French lieu was read and pronounced as a v, and the v later became an f

Derivatives

lieutenancy

nounPlural lieutenancies lɛfˈtɛnənsiluˈtɛnənsi

Based largely on the lush Hastings archives in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, it is the story of Henry Hastings, fifth earl of Huntingdon, and his lord lieutenancy of Leicestershire in the early seventeenth century.
Example sentencesExamples
- To aid in a confrontation on land, the realm had been divided into several ‘lieutenancies,’ so that the requisite steps could be taken to defend the country from within.
- A noble by birth, the young Grouchy was schooled in the pre-Revolution royalist cavalry, rising to a lieutenancy in the élite Compagnie Écossaise of the king's Garde du Corps.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French (see lieu, tenant).

Rhymes

pennant, subtenant, tenant

Definition of lieutenant in US English:

lieutenant

nounlo͞oˈtenəntluˈtɛnənt

1A deputy or substitute acting for a superior.
副官，副手
he accepted his top lieutenant’s resignation with deep regret
Example sentencesExamples
- The only problem was Hunter never really knew what his trusted lieutenant was thinking.
- But I regard you as a lieutenant available to assist as and when required.
- It's as if his on-the-field lieutenant is exempt from being substituted, is exempt too from criticism.
- Thereafter he was Edward's chief lieutenant in the north.
- Those invited were picked partly by the Prince and partly from nominations by lord lieutenants, the Queen's representatives in different parts of the country, as well as charities involved in the rural community.
- Also, it enables the " benevolent dictator " and " trusted lieutenants " structures to emerge.
- The elusiveness of the leader and his lieutenants has gnawed at officials and has cast doubt on their claims of having disrupted the group.
- There the saluting officer was Major Edmund Gartside, who is deputy lord lieutenant of Manchester.
- He left some time after the guard was set up, and left his lieutenant in charge.
- In 1978 he was appointed deputy lord lieutenant for Wiltshire.
- Nasser dominated Egypt post-1952 and Sadat served as a trusted lieutenant.
- His vast influence in the north-east made Charles I appoint him king's lieutenant in the north.
- A raft of top bosses and small-fry lieutenants have been nabbed since then.
- Certainly a number of his lieutenants and cohorts have been captured in recent months.
- The lieutenant stood up to face his superior without fear and without respect.
- While he sits at the apex, it is likely that his top deputies and their lieutenants are largely responsible for coordinating the activities of the far-flung cells.
- He would delegate to his trusted lieutenants and then leave them alone to do their jobs.
- She also looks fabulous enough to make a loyal lieutenant betray the hand that fed him.
- Since human beings (unlike animals, or trees) are created in the image of God, and possess powers of reason which are a reflection of God's, they may act in the world as delegates or lieutenants of God.
- Eventually he gets promoted up to being a lieutenant and becomes the right-hand man to the family boss.
Synonyms
deputy, second in command, right-hand man, right-hand woman, number two, assistant, aide, wingman, henchman, henchwoman, subordinate
1. 1.1
  see first lieutenant, second lieutenant
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although they had lost a loyal lieutenant, the battle was not over.
  Mr Long, a former flight lieutenant, was based at RAF Lyneham from 1962 until 1994.
  The young lieutenant later became Lord Roberts and commander-in-chief of the Indian army.
  He was commissioned a second lieutenant through the Officer Candidate School program in 1969.
  Are the results as crisp and orderly as when the colonel commands the lieutenant?
  Joseph Tilly was a military man and became a lieutenant in the artillery.
  He served as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force bomber command until 1947.
  Michael quickly rose through the ranks as orderly sergeant, first lieutenant and captain.
  They are scheduled to graduate from the Royal Military College as lieutenants in the Australian Army on Saturday June 22.
  High academic rank brought Jackson assignment as a lieutenant in the 3rd US Artillery.
  And the lieutenant was the leader of the platoon.
  The company commander thought the new lieutenant and staff sergeant were scapegoats for superior officers in their chain of command.
  The team, made up of one major, four captains, one lieutenant, one first sergeant, and three sergeants first class, began the arduous task of preparing the foreign soldiers for combat.
  A lieutenant or staff sergeant can easily find themselves in charge of a $25,000 cash monthly field-ordering officer account.
  I served with outstanding female officers as an Army military police lieutenant and captain - officers who were equal or superior to me in every way.
  He was commissioned in mid-1944 and made flight lieutenant two years later.
  There are paintings and photographs of generals, lieutenants, sergeants, privates, secretaries and commanders-in-chief.
  He was commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduation in 1972 from the U.S. Military Academy.
  While at William and Mary in 1776, Monroe was commissioned an infantry lieutenant in the 3rd Virginia Regiment.
  Five years later, he was appointed a second lieutenant in the army's Topographical Engineers.
2. 1.2 A naval officer of a high rank, in particular a commissioned officer in the US Navy or Coast Guard ranking above lieutenant junior grade and below lieutenant commander.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Nuclear propulsion pay will now be received by sub lieutenants and lieutenants at category A levels on completion of their engineer officer of the watch board.
  He has commanded in every rank from lieutenant to vice admiral, and has flown his flag in all three of the Navy's aircraft carriers.
  He reportedly invited a union official home to personally inspect his Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts, awarded for his combat duty as a Navy lieutenant.
  Sir James has commanded in every rank from lieutenant to vice-admiral.
  Initially the Navy had only two ranks, lieutenant and captain; flag ranks were not established until the Civil War.
  Refusing exemption, he had joined the navy as a lieutenant and was about to take charge of the Admiralty's Educational Film Unit.
  I was a naval gunfire officer in the Vietnam War - a Navy lieutenant serving in the 7th Marine Regiment.
  As a Royal Navy lieutenant, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for navigating unchartered waters off the Burmese coast.
  He was a surgeon lieutenant in the navy and a major in the special forces for the sultan of Oman.
  As a Navy lieutenant during World War II, he introduced to the U.S. Navy the importance of knowing how to swim.
  Who makes up and then runs current innovation efforts, lieutenants or admirals?
  Lieutenants were just lieutenants, without the division of sub-lieutenants, but their seniority was all-important, and taken from the Navy list.
  He served two tours as a lieutenant in the navy in Vietnam between December 1967 and April 1969, when he returned to the US with three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star.
  During the second world war he served in the Royal Navy as surgeon lieutenant, escorting convoys in the north Atlantic on HMS Maplin, a converted merchant ship which catapulted Hurricanes into combat.
  He was a Navy lieutenant who fought in real battles.
  As a lieutenant in the Navy, I put my letter of resignation in a year before the end of my commitment.
  In September 1945 I was a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Navy in Ceylon when I was sent to Sumatra with a naval landing party to Belawan Deli, the port for Medan, the principal city in the northern part of the island.
  A Navy lieutenant in France broadcasted information and live entertainment to troops accompanying President Wilson to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
  Appointed first lieutenant in the Continental Navy in 1775, Jones received the command of the Ranger in 1777.
  The two former military officers (Woodward served as a lieutenant in the Navy) have been amigos for more than a dozen years.
3. 1.3 A police or fire department officer next in rank below captain.
  （美国）中尉警官
  Example sentencesExamples
  Back there he plays catch with his father, Mark, a police lieutenant in Carrollton, Texas.
  As a Shawnee police department lieutenant explained to reporters, the transparent tape performed as advertised.
  The police lieutenant who handled the case of our intruder called and informed me that the man who broke into our house was found dead in his jail cell.
  I was strapped onto a backboard and placed on the front of a boat with an injured police lieutenant, a firefighter, and a few walking wounded.
  ‘I only had a pistol with me,’ said a police lieutenant.
  In a separate incident, guerrillas killed a police lieutenant in the same city.
  A volunteer Buffalo police lieutenant also lectured on awareness and how to avoid getting attacked.
  After a portentous prologue, the film shifts five years ahead, showing him in his new position as lieutenant in the citizen police force.
  Some of the great glories of science, including many who have adorned the non-physical sciences, have been as innocent of metaphysical theory as so many police lieutenants.
  She is a 52-year-old retired D.C. police lieutenant and the oldest U.S. athlete on the team.
  They had never expressed pride when I had graduated from the academy and been commissioned as a lieutenant.
  She was eager to see the damage for herself, even though her husband, a police lieutenant, warned her how bad it was.
  ‘We're in a state of high alert,’ said one police lieutenant.
  The fire department lieutenant and the police supervisor led Eric to a parked cruiser, where they pumped him for information.
  The task force leader, a sheriff's lieutenant, said the number of people vulnerable to identity theft in the case could reach 500,000.
  The principal made a call to the police captain or lieutenant, and said, I've got a drug issue here.
  No one would question the sight of a military police lieutenant taking his gear from one place to another.
  On Tuesday I called the lieutenant in charge of the buy-back program for some more information.
  According to the Independent, a police lieutenant declared at the hotel yesterday that he had stationed snipers around the building and would kill anyone who attempted to leave.
  A lot has been made of that fact, but he was putting the question to the police lieutenant this morning.

Usage

In the normal British pronunciation of lieutenant, the first syllable sounds like lef. In the standard US pronunciation, the first syllable, in contrast, sounds like loo. It is difficult to explain where the f in the British pronunciation comes from. Probably, at some point before the 19th century, the u at the end of Old French lieu was read and pronounced as a v, and the v later became an f

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French (see lieu, tenant).

单词	lieutenant
释义	Definition of lieutenant in English: lieutenant noun lɛfˈtɛnəntluˈtɛnənt 1A deputy or substitute acting for a superior. 副官，副手 one of the Prime Minister's most trusted lieutenants Example sentencesExamples But I regard you as a lieutenant available to assist as and when required. Certainly a number of his lieutenants and cohorts have been captured in recent months. Nasser dominated Egypt post-1952 and Sadat served as a trusted lieutenant. The elusiveness of the leader and his lieutenants has gnawed at officials and has cast doubt on their claims of having disrupted the group. The lieutenant stood up to face his superior without fear and without respect. The only problem was Hunter never really knew what his trusted lieutenant was thinking. Eventually he gets promoted up to being a lieutenant and becomes the right-hand man to the family boss. His vast influence in the north-east made Charles I appoint him king's lieutenant in the north. There the saluting officer was Major Edmund Gartside, who is deputy lord lieutenant of Manchester. While he sits at the apex, it is likely that his top deputies and their lieutenants are largely responsible for coordinating the activities of the far-flung cells. Those invited were picked partly by the Prince and partly from nominations by lord lieutenants, the Queen's representatives in different parts of the country, as well as charities involved in the rural community. Thereafter he was Edward's chief lieutenant in the north. He would delegate to his trusted lieutenants and then leave them alone to do their jobs. He left some time after the guard was set up, and left his lieutenant in charge. Since human beings (unlike animals, or trees) are created in the image of God, and possess powers of reason which are a reflection of God's, they may act in the world as delegates or lieutenants of God. She also looks fabulous enough to make a loyal lieutenant betray the hand that fed him. It's as if his on-the-field lieutenant is exempt from being substituted, is exempt too from criticism. A raft of top bosses and small-fry lieutenants have been nabbed since then. In 1978 he was appointed deputy lord lieutenant for Wiltshire. Also, it enables the " benevolent dictator " and " trusted lieutenants " structures to emerge. Synonyms deputy, second in command, right-hand man/woman, number two, assistant, aide, wingman, henchman, henchwoman, subordinate informal sidekick North American informal body man 1.1 A rank of officer in the British army, above second lieutenant and below captain. （英国陆军）中尉 Example sentencesExamples Are the results as crisp and orderly as when the colonel commands the lieutenant? Five years later, he was appointed a second lieutenant in the army's Topographical Engineers. The team, made up of one major, four captains, one lieutenant, one first sergeant, and three sergeants first class, began the arduous task of preparing the foreign soldiers for combat. Joseph Tilly was a military man and became a lieutenant in the artillery. There are paintings and photographs of generals, lieutenants, sergeants, privates, secretaries and commanders-in-chief. The company commander thought the new lieutenant and staff sergeant were scapegoats for superior officers in their chain of command. He was commissioned in mid-1944 and made flight lieutenant two years later. Michael quickly rose through the ranks as orderly sergeant, first lieutenant and captain. A lieutenant or staff sergeant can easily find themselves in charge of a $25,000 cash monthly field-ordering officer account. And the lieutenant was the leader of the platoon. While at William and Mary in 1776, Monroe was commissioned an infantry lieutenant in the 3rd Virginia Regiment. Mr Long, a former flight lieutenant, was based at RAF Lyneham from 1962 until 1994. I served with outstanding female officers as an Army military police lieutenant and captain - officers who were equal or superior to me in every way. He was commissioned a second lieutenant through the Officer Candidate School program in 1969. He was commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduation in 1972 from the U.S. Military Academy. Although they had lost a loyal lieutenant, the battle was not over. They are scheduled to graduate from the Royal Military College as lieutenants in the Australian Army on Saturday June 22. The young lieutenant later became Lord Roberts and commander-in-chief of the Indian army. High academic rank brought Jackson assignment as a lieutenant in the 3rd US Artillery. He served as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force bomber command until 1947. 1.2 A rank of officer in the navy, above sub lieutenant and below lieutenant commander. （英国陆军）中尉 Example sentencesExamples Initially the Navy had only two ranks, lieutenant and captain; flag ranks were not established until the Civil War. He reportedly invited a union official home to personally inspect his Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts, awarded for his combat duty as a Navy lieutenant. He was a surgeon lieutenant in the navy and a major in the special forces for the sultan of Oman. He has commanded in every rank from lieutenant to vice admiral, and has flown his flag in all three of the Navy's aircraft carriers. Sir James has commanded in every rank from lieutenant to vice-admiral. During the second world war he served in the Royal Navy as surgeon lieutenant, escorting convoys in the north Atlantic on HMS Maplin, a converted merchant ship which catapulted Hurricanes into combat. In September 1945 I was a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Navy in Ceylon when I was sent to Sumatra with a naval landing party to Belawan Deli, the port for Medan, the principal city in the northern part of the island. The two former military officers (Woodward served as a lieutenant in the Navy) have been amigos for more than a dozen years. A Navy lieutenant in France broadcasted information and live entertainment to troops accompanying President Wilson to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. He was a Navy lieutenant who fought in real battles. I was a naval gunfire officer in the Vietnam War - a Navy lieutenant serving in the 7th Marine Regiment. As a Royal Navy lieutenant, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for navigating unchartered waters off the Burmese coast. Nuclear propulsion pay will now be received by sub lieutenants and lieutenants at category A levels on completion of their engineer officer of the watch board. Appointed first lieutenant in the Continental Navy in 1775, Jones received the command of the Ranger in 1777. He served two tours as a lieutenant in the navy in Vietnam between December 1967 and April 1969, when he returned to the US with three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star. Refusing exemption, he had joined the navy as a lieutenant and was about to take charge of the Admiralty's Educational Film Unit. As a lieutenant in the Navy, I put my letter of resignation in a year before the end of my commitment. As a Navy lieutenant during World War II, he introduced to the U.S. Navy the importance of knowing how to swim. Lieutenants were just lieutenants, without the division of sub-lieutenants, but their seniority was all-important, and taken from the Navy list. Who makes up and then runs current innovation efforts, lieutenants or admirals? 1.3 (in the US) a police officer next in rank below captain. （美国）中尉警官 Example sentencesExamples The task force leader, a sheriff's lieutenant, said the number of people vulnerable to identity theft in the case could reach 500,000. The fire department lieutenant and the police supervisor led Eric to a parked cruiser, where they pumped him for information. According to the Independent, a police lieutenant declared at the hotel yesterday that he had stationed snipers around the building and would kill anyone who attempted to leave. Some of the great glories of science, including many who have adorned the non-physical sciences, have been as innocent of metaphysical theory as so many police lieutenants. They had never expressed pride when I had graduated from the academy and been commissioned as a lieutenant. ‘I only had a pistol with me,’ said a police lieutenant. In a separate incident, guerrillas killed a police lieutenant in the same city. A lot has been made of that fact, but he was putting the question to the police lieutenant this morning. The police lieutenant who handled the case of our intruder called and informed me that the man who broke into our house was found dead in his jail cell. As a Shawnee police department lieutenant explained to reporters, the transparent tape performed as advertised. A volunteer Buffalo police lieutenant also lectured on awareness and how to avoid getting attacked. She is a 52-year-old retired D.C. police lieutenant and the oldest U.S. athlete on the team. After a portentous prologue, the film shifts five years ahead, showing him in his new position as lieutenant in the citizen police force. She was eager to see the damage for herself, even though her husband, a police lieutenant, warned her how bad it was. On Tuesday I called the lieutenant in charge of the buy-back program for some more information. ‘We're in a state of high alert,’ said one police lieutenant. Back there he plays catch with his father, Mark, a police lieutenant in Carrollton, Texas. The principal made a call to the police captain or lieutenant, and said, I've got a drug issue here. No one would question the sight of a military police lieutenant taking his gear from one place to another. I was strapped onto a backboard and placed on the front of a boat with an injured police lieutenant, a firefighter, and a few walking wounded. Usage In the normal British pronunciation of lieutenant the first syllable sounds like lef-. In the standard US pronunciation the first syllable, in contrast, rhymes with do. It is difficult to explain where the f in the British pronunciation comes from. Probably, at some point before the 19th century, the u at the end of Old French lieu was read and pronounced as a v, and the v later became an f Derivatives lieutenancy nounPlural lieutenancies lɛfˈtɛnənsiluˈtɛnənsi Based largely on the lush Hastings archives in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, it is the story of Henry Hastings, fifth earl of Huntingdon, and his lord lieutenancy of Leicestershire in the early seventeenth century. Example sentencesExamples To aid in a confrontation on land, the realm had been divided into several ‘lieutenancies,’ so that the requisite steps could be taken to defend the country from within. A noble by birth, the young Grouchy was schooled in the pre-Revolution royalist cavalry, rising to a lieutenancy in the élite Compagnie Écossaise of the king's Garde du Corps. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French (see lieu, tenant). Rhymes pennant, subtenant, tenant Definition of lieutenant in US English: lieutenant nounlo͞oˈtenəntluˈtɛnənt 1A deputy or substitute acting for a superior. 副官，副手 he accepted his top lieutenant’s resignation with deep regret Example sentencesExamples The only problem was Hunter never really knew what his trusted lieutenant was thinking. But I regard you as a lieutenant available to assist as and when required. It's as if his on-the-field lieutenant is exempt from being substituted, is exempt too from criticism. Thereafter he was Edward's chief lieutenant in the north. Those invited were picked partly by the Prince and partly from nominations by lord lieutenants, the Queen's representatives in different parts of the country, as well as charities involved in the rural community. Also, it enables the " benevolent dictator " and " trusted lieutenants " structures to emerge. The elusiveness of the leader and his lieutenants has gnawed at officials and has cast doubt on their claims of having disrupted the group. There the saluting officer was Major Edmund Gartside, who is deputy lord lieutenant of Manchester. He left some time after the guard was set up, and left his lieutenant in charge. In 1978 he was appointed deputy lord lieutenant for Wiltshire. Nasser dominated Egypt post-1952 and Sadat served as a trusted lieutenant. His vast influence in the north-east made Charles I appoint him king's lieutenant in the north. A raft of top bosses and small-fry lieutenants have been nabbed since then. Certainly a number of his lieutenants and cohorts have been captured in recent months. The lieutenant stood up to face his superior without fear and without respect. While he sits at the apex, it is likely that his top deputies and their lieutenants are largely responsible for coordinating the activities of the far-flung cells. He would delegate to his trusted lieutenants and then leave them alone to do their jobs. She also looks fabulous enough to make a loyal lieutenant betray the hand that fed him. Since human beings (unlike animals, or trees) are created in the image of God, and possess powers of reason which are a reflection of God's, they may act in the world as delegates or lieutenants of God. Eventually he gets promoted up to being a lieutenant and becomes the right-hand man to the family boss. Synonyms deputy, second in command, right-hand man, right-hand woman, number two, assistant, aide, wingman, henchman, henchwoman, subordinate 1.1 see first lieutenant, second lieutenant Example sentencesExamples Although they had lost a loyal lieutenant, the battle was not over. Mr Long, a former flight lieutenant, was based at RAF Lyneham from 1962 until 1994. The young lieutenant later became Lord Roberts and commander-in-chief of the Indian army. He was commissioned a second lieutenant through the Officer Candidate School program in 1969. Are the results as crisp and orderly as when the colonel commands the lieutenant? Joseph Tilly was a military man and became a lieutenant in the artillery. He served as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force bomber command until 1947. Michael quickly rose through the ranks as orderly sergeant, first lieutenant and captain. They are scheduled to graduate from the Royal Military College as lieutenants in the Australian Army on Saturday June 22. High academic rank brought Jackson assignment as a lieutenant in the 3rd US Artillery. And the lieutenant was the leader of the platoon. The company commander thought the new lieutenant and staff sergeant were scapegoats for superior officers in their chain of command. The team, made up of one major, four captains, one lieutenant, one first sergeant, and three sergeants first class, began the arduous task of preparing the foreign soldiers for combat. A lieutenant or staff sergeant can easily find themselves in charge of a $25,000 cash monthly field-ordering officer account. I served with outstanding female officers as an Army military police lieutenant and captain - officers who were equal or superior to me in every way. He was commissioned in mid-1944 and made flight lieutenant two years later. There are paintings and photographs of generals, lieutenants, sergeants, privates, secretaries and commanders-in-chief. He was commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduation in 1972 from the U.S. Military Academy. While at William and Mary in 1776, Monroe was commissioned an infantry lieutenant in the 3rd Virginia Regiment. Five years later, he was appointed a second lieutenant in the army's Topographical Engineers. 1.2 A naval officer of a high rank, in particular a commissioned officer in the US Navy or Coast Guard ranking above lieutenant junior grade and below lieutenant commander. Example sentencesExamples Nuclear propulsion pay will now be received by sub lieutenants and lieutenants at category A levels on completion of their engineer officer of the watch board. He has commanded in every rank from lieutenant to vice admiral, and has flown his flag in all three of the Navy's aircraft carriers. He reportedly invited a union official home to personally inspect his Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts, awarded for his combat duty as a Navy lieutenant. Sir James has commanded in every rank from lieutenant to vice-admiral. Initially the Navy had only two ranks, lieutenant and captain; flag ranks were not established until the Civil War. Refusing exemption, he had joined the navy as a lieutenant and was about to take charge of the Admiralty's Educational Film Unit. I was a naval gunfire officer in the Vietnam War - a Navy lieutenant serving in the 7th Marine Regiment. As a Royal Navy lieutenant, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for navigating unchartered waters off the Burmese coast. He was a surgeon lieutenant in the navy and a major in the special forces for the sultan of Oman. As a Navy lieutenant during World War II, he introduced to the U.S. Navy the importance of knowing how to swim. Who makes up and then runs current innovation efforts, lieutenants or admirals? Lieutenants were just lieutenants, without the division of sub-lieutenants, but their seniority was all-important, and taken from the Navy list. He served two tours as a lieutenant in the navy in Vietnam between December 1967 and April 1969, when he returned to the US with three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star. During the second world war he served in the Royal Navy as surgeon lieutenant, escorting convoys in the north Atlantic on HMS Maplin, a converted merchant ship which catapulted Hurricanes into combat. He was a Navy lieutenant who fought in real battles. As a lieutenant in the Navy, I put my letter of resignation in a year before the end of my commitment. In September 1945 I was a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Navy in Ceylon when I was sent to Sumatra with a naval landing party to Belawan Deli, the port for Medan, the principal city in the northern part of the island. A Navy lieutenant in France broadcasted information and live entertainment to troops accompanying President Wilson to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Appointed first lieutenant in the Continental Navy in 1775, Jones received the command of the Ranger in 1777. The two former military officers (Woodward served as a lieutenant in the Navy) have been amigos for more than a dozen years. 1.3 A police or fire department officer next in rank below captain. （美国）中尉警官 Example sentencesExamples Back there he plays catch with his father, Mark, a police lieutenant in Carrollton, Texas. As a Shawnee police department lieutenant explained to reporters, the transparent tape performed as advertised. The police lieutenant who handled the case of our intruder called and informed me that the man who broke into our house was found dead in his jail cell. I was strapped onto a backboard and placed on the front of a boat with an injured police lieutenant, a firefighter, and a few walking wounded. ‘I only had a pistol with me,’ said a police lieutenant. In a separate incident, guerrillas killed a police lieutenant in the same city. A volunteer Buffalo police lieutenant also lectured on awareness and how to avoid getting attacked. After a portentous prologue, the film shifts five years ahead, showing him in his new position as lieutenant in the citizen police force. Some of the great glories of science, including many who have adorned the non-physical sciences, have been as innocent of metaphysical theory as so many police lieutenants. She is a 52-year-old retired D.C. police lieutenant and the oldest U.S. athlete on the team. They had never expressed pride when I had graduated from the academy and been commissioned as a lieutenant. She was eager to see the damage for herself, even though her husband, a police lieutenant, warned her how bad it was. ‘We're in a state of high alert,’ said one police lieutenant. The fire department lieutenant and the police supervisor led Eric to a parked cruiser, where they pumped him for information. The task force leader, a sheriff's lieutenant, said the number of people vulnerable to identity theft in the case could reach 500,000. The principal made a call to the police captain or lieutenant, and said, I've got a drug issue here. No one would question the sight of a military police lieutenant taking his gear from one place to another. On Tuesday I called the lieutenant in charge of the buy-back program for some more information. According to the Independent, a police lieutenant declared at the hotel yesterday that he had stationed snipers around the building and would kill anyone who attempted to leave. A lot has been made of that fact, but he was putting the question to the police lieutenant this morning. Usage In the normal British pronunciation of lieutenant, the first syllable sounds like lef. In the standard US pronunciation, the first syllable, in contrast, sounds like loo. It is difficult to explain where the f in the British pronunciation comes from. Probably, at some point before the 19th century, the u at the end of Old French lieu was read and pronounced as a v, and the v later became an f Origin Late Middle English: from Old French (see lieu, tenant).
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