lieutenancy

/loo-ten-uhn-see/US // luˈtɛn ən si //

中尉身份,中尉职位,中尉,中尉职务

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural lieu·ten·an·cies.
- : the office, authority, incumbency, or jurisdiction of a lieutenant.
- : lieutenants collectively.

Every public office, every bench of justice, every commission of Lieutenancy, was filled with Roundheads.
He entered as a private, rose to be a sergeant, and his name was down for a first lieutenancy when he left the army.
I had a lieutenancy offered me three or four times; but that is not bread, madam—I live much better as I do.
After some years service against Napoleon, he had resigned his lieutenancy in the 44th Regiment.
Shortly after Dettingen Wolfe was appointed adjutant and promoted to a lieutenancy.