petty officer

English

Noun

petty officer (plural petty officers)

1. A non-commissioned officer in the Canadian, US and UK Navy and the US Coast Guard; roughly equivalent to a sergeant in the army
   • 2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The rescue swimmer was Coast Guard third petty officer Evan Grills. He was 24 years old, he came from Florida and this was his first rescue.

Synonyms

• PO (abbreviation)

Coordinate terms

• non-commissioned officer
• warrant officer
• commissioned officer
• general officer
• field officer
• staff officer

Derived terms

• chief petty officer
• master chief petty officer
• petty officer first class
• petty officer second class
• petty officer third class
• senior chief petty officer

Translations

non-commissioned officer

• Estonian: allohvitser
• Finnish: kersantti (fi), pursimies (fi)
• French: maître (fr) m
• German: Unteroffizier (de) m
• Italian: nostromo (it), sottufficiale di marina m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: underoffiser (no) m

  Nynorsk: underoffiser m

• Polish: bosman (pl) m, starszy bosman (pl) m
• Portuguese: suboficial c, oficial inferior c (archaic)
• Russian: у́нтер-офице́р (ru) m (únter-oficér)
• Swedish: underofficer (sv) c