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  1. 1. n. An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops Source: wordnet
  4. 4. 1. (Mil.) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies. 2. (Naut.) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master. Totten. Quartermaster general (Mil.), in the United States a staff officer, who has the rank of brigadier general and is the chief officer in the quartermaster's department; in England, an officer of high rank stationed at the War Office having similar duties; also, a staff officer, usually a general officer, accompanying each complete army in the field. -- Quartermaster sergeant. See Sergeant. Source: webster
  5. 5. An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions,storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for aregiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies. Source: adambom
  6. 6. n:100 n. an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops Source: ecdict

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