Synonyms of the word

officer

• n. One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or…
• n. One who holds a public office.
• n. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
• n. (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.
• v. (transitive) To supply with officers.
• v. (transitive) To command like an officer.

command

• n. An order to do something.
• n. The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
• n. power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
• n. A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
• n. The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
• n. (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer;…
• n. Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
• n. (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform…
• n. (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
• v. (transitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
• v. (transitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have…
• v. (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
• v. (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
• v. (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
• v. (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
• v. (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.

functionary

• n. A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited…
• n. A paper-pusher, bean counter.

gob

• n. (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
• n. (countable, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
• n. (US, military, slang) A sailor.
• n. (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
• n. (US, regional) A whoopee pie.
• v. To gather into a lump.
• v. To spit, especially to spit phlegm.

lawman

• n. (law, historical) A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law.
• n. (law, historical) One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac…
• n. (law, Orkney and Shetland) The presiding justice of the supreme court.
• n. (rare) A man of the law: a lawyer.
• n. (informal) An officer of the law: a law-enforcement officer.

man

• n. An adult male human.
• n. (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
• n. A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.).
• n. (collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.).
• n. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
• n. (obsolete) A sentient being, whether human or supernatural.
• n. An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity,…
• n. (uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
• n. A husband.
• n. A lover; a boyfriend.
• n. A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used…
• n. A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last…
• n. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
• n. A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
• n. An adult male servant. (historical) A vassal. A subject.
• n. A piece or token used in board games such as chess.
• n. (MLE, slang) Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.
• n. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience,…
• n. A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males.
• adj. Only used in man enough.
• interj. Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing…
• v. (transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
• v. (transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).
• v. (reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence…

mariner

• n. A sailor.

officeholder

• n. A person who holds an office, especially one appointed or elected to a public office; an incumbent.

official

• adj. Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
• adj. Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue…
• adj. Approved by authority; authorized.
• adj. sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
• adj. Discharging an office or function.
• adj. Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
• adj. Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the…
• adj. True, real, beyond doubt.
• n. An office holder invested with powers and authorities.
• n. A person responsible for applying the rules of a game or sport in a competition.

policeman

• n. A member of a police force, especially one who is male.
• n. (chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric…

seafarer

• n. A sailor or mariner.
• n. One who travels by sea.

seaman

• n. A mariner or sailor, one who mans a ship. Opposed to landman or landsman.
• n. (Britain, Navy) The lowest ranking in the Navy, below Able Seaman.
• n. (US, Navy) An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below petty…
• n. A merman; the male of the mermaid.

serviceman

• n. A man who serves in the armed forces.
• n. A person, especially a man, employed in service and maintenance of equipment.

tar

• n. (uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from…
• n. Coal tar.
• n. (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
• n. (slang, dated) A sailor, because of their tarpaulin clothes. Also Jack Tar.
• n. Black tar, a form of heroin.
• v. (transitive) To coat with tar.
• v. (transitive) To besmirch.
• n. (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix.
• n. (computing) A file produced by such a program.
• v. (computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.
• n. (music) A Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle…
• n. (music) A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.