1. an officer of a legislative or fraternal body responsible for maintaining internal order 2. (Historical Terms) (formerly) an officer who served a monarch or noble, esp as an armed attendant Also: sergeant, serjeant at arms or serjeant Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12...
officer Sergeancy sergeant References in classic literature ? He perceived Chateau-Renaud and Debray, who had just gained the good graces of a sergeant-at-arms, and who had persuaded the latter to let them stand before, instead of behind him, as they ought to have done. View in context Th...
: sergeant at arms 2 obsolete : an officer who enforces the judgments of a court or the commands of one in authority 3 : a noncommissioned officer ranking in the army and marine corps above a corporal and below a staff sergeant broadly : noncommissioned officer 4 : an officer in ...
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a police officer ranking immediately below a captain or a lieutenant in the U.S. and immediately below an inspector in Britain. a title of a particular office or function at the court of a monarch (often used in combination): sergeant of the larder; sergeant-caterer. sergeant at arms. Als...
2. See sergeant at arms 3. a court or municipal officer who has ceremonial duties 4. (formerly) a tenant by military service, not of knightly rank Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005 The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)...
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Drill sergeant.Mil.See underDrill. --Sergeant-at-arms, an officer of a legislative body, or of a deliberative or judicial assembly, who executes commands in preserving order and arresting offenders. SeeSergeant, 1. --Sergeant major. (a)Mil.See the Note under def. 2, above. (b)Zool.The...
3.a police officer ranking immediately below a captain or a lieutenant in the U.S. and immediately below an inspector in Britain. 4.an officer at the court of a monarch:sergeant of the larder. 5.sergeant at arms. 6.sergeantfish.