Brevet is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BREVET in dictionary:

VERB:
• to confer an honorary military rank upon
• confer a brevet rank on.
• To confer rank upon by brevet.
• promote somebody by brevet, in the military
• promote by brevet
NOUN:
• a former type of military commission conferred especially for outstanding service, by which an officer was promoted to a higher rank without the corresponding pay
• document entitling a commissioned officer to hold temporarily a higher military rank
• A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].
• A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer.
• a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay)
ADJECTIVE:
• Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to confer an honorary rank upon

Words related to BREVET

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Words that contain BREVET

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How to use BREVET in a sentence

• Emory, Colonel of the Fifth Cavalry, and Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Duncan, Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment, had arrived there during our absence.
• The lieutenant-generalcy conferred on Winfield Scott after the Mexican War was a special brevet title of honor, that rank not existing in our army.
• Such ability and devotion brought him home from Mexico bearing the brevet rank of Colonel.
• Their names are submitted, with the nomination for the brevet rank of the grades from which they were severally reduced.
• Brevet General Porter, an officer of great experience in the artillery, and merit, was appointed to the command of another of those regiments.
• For meritorious conduct in defending Fort Harrison, on the Wabash River, against the Indians received the brevet of major.
• For gallant conduct there the next year received the brevet of brigadier-general, and in 1838 was appointed to the chief command in Florida.
• Great embarrassment has resulted from the effect upon rank in the Army heretofore given to brevet and staff commissions.
• Henri IV rewarded his merit by the brevet of councillor of state, and Marie de Medicis appointed him advocate-general.
• It was the year before Dick Forsyth came down from the neighbourhood of Sheikhbudin with a brevet and a good deal of personal damage.
• As family physician, and father confessor by brevet, Dr.
• The tiny army of the United States was under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Josiah Harmar, with the brevet rank of general.
• He was afterward commissioned as lieutenant, rose to the rank of captain, and later had the brevet of major.
• Monsieur le Marechal will prepare at once a brevet, which I will immediately sign.
• He had the brevet of brigadier general of volunteers, but repudiated any title beyond that of his actual rank in the regulars.
• Subsequently he reentered the United States Army, and for meritorious conduct attained the rank of brevet brigadier-general.
• The difference this made in regard to his promotion was that he died a captain instead of a colonel-commandant, his rank in the army being merely brevet.
• Brevet Major-General Irvin McDowell is relieved from the command of the Fourth Military District, and will report in person, without delay, at the War Department.
• By direction of the President, Brigadier and Brevet Major-General Irvin McDowell is assigned to the command of the Department of the East.
• Until the arrival of General Rousseau at New Orleans, Brevet Major-General Buchanan will command the Department.
• Brevet Major-General George Crook is assigned, according to his brevet of major-general, to command the Department of the Columbia, in place of Rousseau, relieved.
• Rousseau, brigadier-general, commanding Department of Louisiana, is hereby assigned to duty according to his brevet rank of major-general.
• Clark, of the Third Regiment, and Brevet Major Thomas Noel, of the Sixth.
• The command of the Army on the frontier of Mexico has since been assigned to General Taylor, with his brevet rank of major-general recently conferred upon him.
• I am not aware that any officer below the lineal rank of colonel has ever been made a brigadier-general by brevet.
• Holmes, of the Seventh Regiment of Infantry, to be major by brevet from the 23d September, 1846, in the Army of the United States.
• Such enlargement would not accord with my own views on the subject of bestowing brevet rewards.
• They were not written with reference to his brevet promotion, but for an appointment in the new regiments.
• I therefore recommend him to be promoted major by brevet.
• Hardee, Second Dragoons, has been promoted to be major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the affair at Madellin, Mexico, to date from the 26th of March, 1847.
• The count received his brevet as general of brigade, the cross of Saint Louis, and a pension of four thousand francs.
• The right wing, commanded by Brevet Major-general John C.
• The center and left were massed at and near Corinth, the center commanded by Major-generals Hardee and Bragg, and the left by Major-general Polk and Brevet Major-general Hindman.
• We found that it was etiquette to call them each captain, but I think some of the Deephaven men took the title by brevet upon arriving at a proper age.

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