lieutenant
looh te nuhnt
- n a commissioned military officer
- n an officer in a police force
- n an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent
- n an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade
- He was a lieutenant commander when the fleet sallied out to take the Gilberts last month.
- This was a man who, as a lieutenant in the Army, risked a court-martial by refusing to sit in the back of a military bus.
- LES LOVELL, El Dorado County police lieutenant, referring to a woman believed to be the 11-year-old girl who was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.