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Sergeant (SERJEANT a sheriff's officer)

or SERJEANT, a sheriff's officer, a bailiff; a title given to certain officers of the British sovereign's British sove sovereign's household, serjeant; a police officer of superior rank to a private. Sergeant-atarms, an officer appointed by a legislative body, whose duties are to enforce the orders given by such bodies, generally under the warrant of its presiding officer.

In military language, the second permanent grade in the noncommissioned ranks of the army. In the United States service there are regimental as well as company sergeants. Their duties are mainly indicated by the title, which is a compound of sergeant with the superior officer or the department they are intended to serve; as, sergeant-major, quartermaster-sergeant, color-sergeant , commissary-sergeant, ordnance-sergeant.