Usually means: Officer responsible for equipment management.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. quartermaster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quartermaster: Merriam-Webster
  3. quartermaster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quartermaster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quartermaster: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quartermaster: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quartermaster, quartermaster: Wordnik
  8. quartermaster: Wiktionary
  9. quartermaster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. quartermaster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quartermaster: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Quartermaster, quartermaster: Dictionary.com
  13. Quartermaster (United States Navy), Quartermaster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Quartermaster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. quartermaster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. quartermaster: Rhymezone
  17. quartermaster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Quartermaster: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. quartermaster: FreeDictionary.org
  20. quartermaster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. quartermaster: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quartermaster: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quartermaster: Master Mariner
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (military) 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. Master of quartering.
noun:  (nautical) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master. Once master of the quarterdeck.
noun:  (scouting) A leadership position within a troop whose responsibility it is to track and maintain the troop's equipment, for example stoves, Dutch ovens, utensils, and tents.
verb:  To act as a quartermaster.

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