brevet
- n a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay)
- v promote somebody by brevet, in the military
- He held rank as brevet major for four months and two days during the summer of 1847.
- Eight-cent stamps are green and show a propeller; 16 stamps are blue and carry a pilot's brevet; 24 stamps are red an portray an airplane.
- After the war, as a brevet brigadier.