different between officer vs schoolie

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /??f?s?/
• (dialectal, informal) IPA^(key): /??fs?/
• Hyphenation: of?fi?cer

Noun

officer (plural 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.
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.

Derived terms

• non-commissioned officer
• officerly
• patrol officer
• police officer

Related terms

• office
• official
• officiate

Descendants

• ? Central Dusun: upisor
• ? Punjabi: ????? (afasar)
• ? Swahili: afisa

Translations

Verb

officer (third-person singular simple present officers, present participle officering, simple past and past participle officered)

1. (transitive) To supply with officers.
2. (transitive) To command like an officer.

Synonyms

• direct
• conduct
• manage

Related terms

• CO
• NCO

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• officere, officeer, offyseer, offycer, offycere, offiser, officeere, officiare, offecer, oficer, officier

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman officer, officier, from Latin offici?rius; equivalent to office +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi??s??r/, /?fi?s??r/, /??fi?s?r/, /??fis?r/

Noun

officer (plural officers)

1. A hireling or subordinate; one employed to serve, especially at an estate.
2. An official or officeholder; the holder of a prominent office or position.
3. A municipal, local or societal official or officeholder.
4. A religious or ecclesiastical official or officeholder.
5. (religion) A deputy or subordinate of the forces of good or evil.
6. (rare) One who supervises or organises jousting.
7. (rare) A member or leader of a military force.

Descendants

• English: officer
• Scots: offisher

References

• “off??c??r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-20.

Old French

Alternative forms

• officier

Noun

officer m (oblique plural officers, nominative singular officers, nominative plural officer)

1. officer

References

• officer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Swedish

Etymology

From French

Pronunciation

Noun

officer c

1. officer, a military person of fänrik grade or higher
2. (archaic) ämbetsman, tjänsteman; one who holds a public office

English

Alternative forms

• schooly

Etymology

From school +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?li

Noun

schoolie (plural schoolies)

1. (Australia) A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
   • 1996, John Cotterell, Social Networks and Social Influences in Adolescence, page 176,

     Known as the Drug Awareness Network, it was able to find funding assistance for its work from the National Drug Education unit. The network devised a programme of activities which was later advertised to intending Schoolies by helpers walking the streets and distributing leafets containing information about forthcoming events.

   • 2007, John Chalmers, Byron Bay Taxis and Lunacies, page 78,

     Some of the locals prey on the Schoolies.

   • 2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 338,

     If staying in November or December, the place is filled with hundreds of schoolies.

   • 2010, Garry Disher, Blood Moon, page 17,

     But the victim in this case had been a schoolie, she?d been assaulted during Schoolies Week, and her attacker might have been a fellow schoolie.

2. (Australia) A schoolteacher.
3. (Britain, military) An education officer.
   • 2008, John H. Dunning, Seasons of a Scholar: Some Personal Reflections of an International Business Economist, page 46,

     Arbroath, being a training station for young naval airmen, also housed several ‘schoolies’ (education officers), four of whom lived in an adjacent building to mine. I quickly struck up a close friendship with two of the schoolies, Ron Horner and Vivian Price.

4. (US, fishing) A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.
   • 1997 August, Lawrence Pine, Massachusetts?s Plymouth Rock Bass, Field & Stream, page 94,

     Poppers and Clouser-style flies can produce large numbers of schoolies that average 16 to 24 inches, with a sprinkling of fish from 24 to 28 inches.

   • 2003, Larry Larsen, Amazon Peacock Bass Fishing: Top Tactics for Top Locations, page 150,

     Oklahomans Jim Campbell and Gary Tyler caught 123 peacocks (including two teeners) by concentrating on the schoolies with jigs and other small lures that day.

   • 2009, Tom Rosenbauer, Nick Lyons, The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing: 101 Tips for the Absolute Beginner, page 88,

     Schoolies tend to concentrate inside harbors and along beaches, often moving far inside tidal creeks and salt ponds.

Synonyms

• (senior school student attending school-leaving celebrations): leaver (Western Australia)
• (schoolteacher):
• (education officer):
• (bass that swims in a school): schoolie bass

Derived terms

• schoolies week

Translations

See also

• toolie