Difference between officer and penitentiary
Definitions
noun
- a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel
- someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust
- a member of a police force
- any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command
verb
- direct or command as an officer
Examples
Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified.
Officers used a digger to carve out a trench 10ft deep and 40ft long to get to the van.
Definitions
adjective
- showing or constituting penance
- used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers
noun
- a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
Examples
In Kingston, we check out the museum at the penitentiary, where convicts have been housed for well over 100 years.
Here is Fleece Johnson, a woolly-hatted veteran of Kentucky State Penitentiary, gravely recalling the good old days: In this prison, booty was more important than food.
If John Doe is sentenced to a term of imprisonment and later goes out of his mind, the state may continue to keep him in the penitentiary for the duration of his sentence.
