lieutenant commander
noun
: a commissioned officer in the navy or coast guard ranking above a lieutenant and below a commander
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Another person who claimed to be a lieutenant commander in the U.S. military abroad asked for help to pay for a shipment of gold and cash seized in a raid. 
Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022 Pitts was reduced in rank to lieutenant commander upon retirement, costing him thousands in military pension income. San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2022 Bill Spence, a former Town Council member and retired Naval lieutenant commander and nuclear engineering officer. Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2022 The decision was made to let the Navy lieutenant commander, 37, continue. San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2022 The person responsible for the Trout Memo was none other than James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, then a lieutenant commander. Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022 Spence is a retired Naval lieutenant commander and nuclear engineering officer. AZCentral.com, 6 Apr. 2022 The Golden Rule made an international splash in 1958 when its skipper, Albert Bigelow, a former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, was blocked by the Coast Guard from sailing into the Pacific Ocean nuclear test zone as a protest. Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022 Edwin Roland Mowbray III, known as Ted, was the son of Edwin R. Mowbray Jr., a career naval aviator and lieutenant commander, and his wife, Nancy Lane Hebb, who worked in real estate sales, was born in Baltimore and raised in Roland Park. Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 21 Dec. 2021 See More
Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022 Pitts was reduced in rank to lieutenant commander upon retirement, costing him thousands in military pension income. San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2022 Bill Spence, a former Town Council member and retired Naval lieutenant commander and nuclear engineering officer. Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2022 The decision was made to let the Navy lieutenant commander, 37, continue. San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2022 The person responsible for the Trout Memo was none other than James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, then a lieutenant commander. Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022 Spence is a retired Naval lieutenant commander and nuclear engineering officer. AZCentral.com, 6 Apr. 2022 The Golden Rule made an international splash in 1958 when its skipper, Albert Bigelow, a former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, was blocked by the Coast Guard from sailing into the Pacific Ocean nuclear test zone as a protest. Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022 Edwin Roland Mowbray III, known as Ted, was the son of Edwin R. Mowbray Jr., a career naval aviator and lieutenant commander, and his wife, Nancy Lane Hebb, who worked in real estate sales, was born in Baltimore and raised in Roland Park. Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 21 Dec. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1839, in the meaning defined above