Officer
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To supply with officers. To command like an officer.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations. One who holds a public office. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative. A simple contraction of the term "commissioned officer."
Example sentence: My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found.
Officeholder
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A person who holds an office, especially one appointed or elected to a public office; an incumbent