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petty officer

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 224 words | Copyright

petty officer, the naval equivalent of the rank of sergeant in military forces. In the British Navy they are divided into two grades, chief petty officer and petty officer. The word petty comes from the French petit, small.

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