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• n  an officer ranking next below a lieutenant

• He entered the Army's Military Academy, became a sublieutenant at 18, a full lieutenant at 20.
• She proved that as a young sublieutenant he had sold French military secrets of no great importance, not because he was a black-hearted traitor to his country but because he had .
• But when he arrived with them, his eyes popped as he met a sublieutenant also lugging in a case of grenades.