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单词 lieutenant colonel
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lieutenant colonel in British English

noun
an officer holding commissioned rank immediately junior to a colonel in certain armies, air forces, and marine corps

lieutenant colonel in American English

US Military
an officer ranking above a major and below a colonel

Examples of 'lieutenant colonel' in a sentence
lieutenant colonel

In two years he rose from lieutenant colonel to major general.
Garraty, John Arthur The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)
He rose as high as a lieutenant colonel.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He ended the war as a lieutenant colonel and went on to be a distinguished diplomat.
The Sun (2010)
How should a lieutenant colonel in the Marines address a captain in the navy?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Its builder, a lieutenant colonel, had a string of railways to his name.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Five Americans were also killed in the last week, one a lieutenant colonel.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The men, in uniforms of a major and lieutenant colonel, got past security into a compound.
The Sun (2006)
I saw the lieutenant colonel.
Oliver Poole BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad (2003)
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