british officer

collocation in English

meaningsofBritishandofficer

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british
adjective
uk
/ˈbrɪt.ɪʃ/us
/ˈbrɪt̬.ɪʃ/
belonging to or relating to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or ...
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officer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɒf.ɪ.sər/us
/ˈɑː.fɪ.sɚ/
a person in the armed forces who has a position ...
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(Definition ofbritishandofficerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Britishofficerprisoners are allowed two letters of unlimited length per month and one postcard a week.
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British officers thought detainees' lurid petitions were exaggerated.
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British officers have a great experience and an almost inherent genius for this.
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British officers were sent to the border and this question deals with them.
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British officers who attended to see the departure of the first train of emigrants, reported that conditions were on the whole orderly and humane.
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British officers gave these men lectures when they were in the jungle.
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British officers were commissioned to defend the prisoners.
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British officers' powers may be extended so that they could enter vessels of specified convention states on the high seas.
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British officers tried to stop them, but they kept on firing for an hour.
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British officers in sufficient strength will be adequately maintained in the future.
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British officers have been constantly passing to and fro, and munitions of war in very considerable quantities have been supplied to the resistance movements.
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British officers were expected to be gentlemen and sportsmen; there was no problem if they were entirely wanting in military knowledge or leadership skills.
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British officers posted here in those days were afraid of facing them.
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British officers keen to maintain their home comforts transported chairs, sofas, dining tables and even four-poster beds into battle.
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British officers visiting and surveying led to an admixture of foreign words in the local language.
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