officer — OET

officer

noun

1 an officer of the county court:

representative, agent, deputy, messenger, envoy.

2 the officers of the society are under considerable pressure:

committee member, official, office-holder, office-bearer, board member, public servant, administrator, commissioner, executive, functionary, bureaucrat, dignitary;

derogatory apparatchik.

3 all officers carry warrant cards:

police officer, policeman, policewoman, PC, WPC, officer of the law, detective, DC;

British constable;

North American roundsman, trooper, peace officer, lawman;

French gendarme, flic;

informal cop, pig, woodentop;

British, informal copper, busy, bizzy, plod, rozzer, bobby;

North American, informal narc, gumshoe, bear, uniform;

Australian, New Zealand, informal demon, walloper, John Hop;

informal , dated tec, dick, flatfoot, flattie;

archaic peeler, bluebottle, finger, bogey, runner.

officer Oxford Dictionary of English