officerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English officer, from Anglo-Norman officer, officier, from Old French officer, Late Latin officiarius (“official”), from Latin officium (“office”) + -ārius (“-er”).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɒfɪsə/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɒfəsə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔfɪsɚ/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɔfəsɚ/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɑfɪsɚ/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑfəsɚ/
• (dialectal, くだけた用法) IPA^(key): /ˈɒfsə/
• ハイフネーション: of‧fi‧cer

名詞

officer (複数形 officers)

2. One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
3. A respectful term of address for an officer, especially a police officer.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.

5. One who holds a public office.
7. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
9. (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.

派生語

関連する語

• office
• official
• officiate

派生した語

• → Central Dusun: upisor
• → Punjabi: ਅਫ਼ਸਰ (afasar)
• → Swahili: afisa

動詞

officer (三人称単数 現在形 officers, 現在分詞 officering, 過去形および過去分詞形 officered)

1. (transitive) To supply with officers.
2. (transitive) To command as or like an officer.
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 31, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     Many of our journals are officered by Irish gentlemen, and their gallant brigade does the penning among us, as their ancestors used to transact the fighting in Europe; and engage under many a flag, to be good friends when the battle is over.

   • 1929, Robert Graves, Good-Bye to All That, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter 10, p. 115,^[1]

     The regular battalions of the regiment, though officered mainly by Anglo-Welshmen of county families, did not normally contain more than about one Welshman in fifty in the ranks.

同意語

• direct
• conduct
• manage

関連する語

• CO
• NCO