non-commissioned officer

Noun

 * 1) A person of authority in the military who has not received a commission (a direct conveyance of authority from the sovereign government); as such they can have charge or control but not command in the most technical use of the word.
 * A platoon sergeant may only be a non-commissioned officer but he's the one his men look to when the bullets start flying.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: underofficer
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: allohvitser
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: oifigeach neamhchoimisiúnta
 * Italian: sottufficiale
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 부사관
 * Macedonian: подофице́р
 * Malay: pegawai tidak tauliah
 * Norman: souôs-officyi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: suboficial
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: подофицир, дочасник
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovene: podčastnik
 * Spanish: suboficial
 * Swedish: underofficer
 * Turkish:
 * Walloon: bas oficî