Synonyms for lieutenant
luˈtɛn ənt; in Brit. use, except in the navy, lɛfˈtɛn əntlieu·tenant

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1. lieutenantadjective

   A military grade that is junior to the grade the adjective modifies: lieutenant colonel, lieutenant general, lieutenant commander.

   Synonyms:
   lieut, Lieut, LT, LT., lieut., Lieut., Lt.

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1. lieutenantnoun

   a commissioned military officer

   Synonyms:
   deputy, police lieutenant

2. lieutenant, police lieutenantnoun

   an officer in a police force

   Synonyms:
   deputy, police lieutenant

3. deputy, lieutenantnoun

   an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent

   Synonyms:
   deputy, deputy sheriff, surrogate, police lieutenant

4. lieutenantnoun

   an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade

   Synonyms:
   deputy, police lieutenant

Matched Categories

1. • Assistant
   • Commissioned Military Officer
   • Commissioned Naval Officer
   • Military

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1. List of paraphrases for "lieutenant":

   lt., -lieutenant, lieuteant, l.t., sir, lt, obersturmführer, detective, lieut, inspector, ensign, lieutenants, second-lieutenant

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1. William Kelly:

   Being in internal affairs for so long as a sergeant and then again coming back as lieutenant, I knew that Internal Affairs investigations take months and months and months, sometimes over a year, i know that it takes months and months to go through the administrative process of scrutiny by different departments.

2. Sridhar Warrier:

   The navy is not yet ready to be able to take ladies onboard ships because it requires certain infrastructure changes to ship design and that takes time, when the ships are women-ready, probably the navy will cross that bridge, and then you know Sub Lieutenant Shivangi may have some women in other streams also.

3. John Fetterman:

   He's spent his campaign lying about my record on crime, i'm a Democrat that I am running on my record on crime. You know, I ran for mayor of my community out in Western Pennsylvania to confront gun violence. It's always been a very deep, personal issue for me. … Working with the police, funding the police, and working with the community, we created the kind of relationship that was successful that we went more than five and a half years without any murder loss in my community — never done before or since during my time as mayor before I became lieutenant governor.

4. President Juan Manuel Santos:

   Lieutenant Moscoso is now free and is in good condition.

5. John Lujan:

   Think of all the glass ceilings that Republicans broke in this last election [on Tuesday]. It wasn't just the election of the governor, the first woman minority woman elected to lieutenant governor, [but] you look at the race in Texas. This [seat] is 73 percent Hispanic.