1) Army commission 2) Document 3) French word used in English 4) Limited military promotion 5) Military commission 6) Military terminology 7) Nominal military promotion 8) Nominally higher rank 9) Papers 10) Promotion without a raise 11) Raise in rank 12) To promote by brevet 13) Type of army commission
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commission enabling officer to take higher rank
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• (n.) A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage]. • (v. t.) To confer rank upon by brevet. • (n.) A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer. • (a.) Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a br...
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form of military commission formerly used in the U.S. and British armies. Under the system in which an officer was customarily promoted within his ...
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(French) Patent. Â Stamped on the cuvette, the word is sometimes mistaken for a maker's name (ancre and remontoir also lend themselves to this misconception); Â as it happens there really was a Paris watchmaker named Brevet, although as he lived in the seventeenth century he is unlikely to cross the
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Bre·vet' (bre*vĕt')
transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Brevetted ;
present participle & verbal noun Brevetting .]
(Mil.) To confer rank upon by brevet.
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Bre·vet' (bre*vĕt'; 277)
noun [ French
brevet , Late Latin
brevetum , from Latin
brevis short. See
Brief .]
1. A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [ French usage].
2. (Mil.) A commission giving an officer h...
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Bre·vet' adjective (Mil.) Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a
brevet colonel; a
brevet commission.
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A brevet is a commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay, a type of honorary promotion of an officer. In the United States army, rank by brevet is conferred, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for gallant actions or meritorious services. A brevet rank gives no right of command in the particular corps...
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[
n] - a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay) 2. [v] - promote somebody by brevet, in the military
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brevet An official document granting certain privileges from a sovereign or government; specifically, in the army, a document conferring nominal rank on an officer, but giving no right to extra pay.
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noun a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay)
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(Say: bruh-vay) - A brevet is an official randonneuring ride of at least 200 kilometers usually completed to qualify for longer and major events, such as Paris-Brest-Paris and Boston-Montreal-Boston. Just as on the longer events, in order to officially complete a brevet you must ride the entire route and stop at checkpoints along the way between ce...
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