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quartermaster

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Noun
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quar=ter=mas=ter
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CIDE DICTIONARY

quartermastern. [Quarter + master: cf. F. quartier-maître.].
  •  An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.  Totten.  [1913 Webster]
Quartermaster general (Mil.), in the United States a staff officer, who has the rank of brigadier general and is the chief officer in the quartermaster's department; in England, an officer of high rank stationed at the War Office having similar duties; also, a staff officer, usually a general officer, accompanying each complete army in the field. -- Quartermaster sergeant. See Sergeant.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

quartermaster, n.
1 a regimental officer in charge of quartering, rations, etc.
2 a naval petty officer in charge of steering, signals, etc.

Idiom
Quartermaster General the head of the army department in charge of quartering etc. quartermaster sergeant a sergeant assisting an army quartermaster.

THESAURUS

quartermaster

OD, boatswain, captain, caterer, chandler, chief engineer, chief mate, commander, commissariat, commissary, deck officer, donor, furnisher, manciple, master, mate, merchant, naval officer, navigating officer, navigator, patron, pipes, provider, provisioner, purveyor, retailer, sailing master, second mate, shipmaster, skipper, steward, stock clerk, storekeeper, supplier, sutler, the Old Man, victualer, vivandier, watch officer

ROGET THESAURUS

quartermaster

Provision

N provision, supply, grist, grist for the mill, subvention, resources, groceries, grocery, providing, purveyance, reinforcement, reenforcement, commissariat, provender, ensilage, viaticum, caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple, feeder, batman, victualer, grocer, comprador, restaurateur, jackal, pelican, sutler, grocery shop, grocery store.


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