एक आयोग के अधिकारी को अस्थायी रूप से उच्च रैंक रखने के लिए एक दस्तावेज (लेकिन उच्च वेतन के बिना)

Noun:

Brevet,

brevet's Usage Examples:

Gainesville was settled about 1851, was incorporated in 1873, and was chartered as a city in 1879; it was named in honour of General Edmund Pendleton Gaines (1777-1849), who served with distinction in the War of 1812, becoming a brigadier-general in March 1814 and receiving the brevet of major-general and the thanks of Congress for his defence of Fort Erie in August 1814.

He was promoted to be brigadiergeneral of volunteers in September 1861, and to be major-general of volunteers in July 1862, earned the brevet of lieutenant-colonel in the regular army at the capture of Nashville, Tennessee, that of colonel at Shiloh, and that of brigadier-general at Perryville, and in March 1865 was breveted major-general for his services during the war.

It was also a distributory tax (impot de repartition); every year the king in his council fixed the total sum which the taille was to produce in the following year; he drew up and signed the brevet de la taille (warrant), and the contribution of the individual taxpayer was arrived at in the last analysis by a series of subdivisions.

In 1861 he became captain, and in the Abyssinian expedition of 1867-68 was a brigade major, being again mentioned in despatches and given a brevet majority.

Slocum, and in 1865 received a captain's brevet for "efficient services during the campaigns in North Carolina and Georgia."

In the Civil War he attained the rank of brigadier-general (March 1863) and received the brevet of major-general (1865).

After the war, now brevet major-general, he returned to regular engineer duty as chief engineer of the U.S. army, and retired in 1879.

Lee, and was made brevet second lieutenant, 4th Artillery, in 1829.

For his services at Franklin he was awarded the rank of brigadier-general (November 1864) and the brevet rank of major-general (March 1865) in the regular army.

From the latter he graduated in July 1828, and became by brevet a second lieutenant of infantry.

brevet's Meaning':

a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay

Synonyms:

written document, document, papers,

Antonyms:

bore, lower, fall, curse,