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quartermasters

quartermasters is the plural of quartermaster.

quartermasters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of quartermaster.

Meaning of quartermaster

Noun

quartermaster (plural quartermasters)

  1. 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.
  2. A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master. Once master of the quarterdeck.
  3. (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.

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Phrases with quartermasters

Questions about quartermasters

What is quartermasters the plural of?
Quartermasters is the plural of quartermaster.

Words near quartermasters in the dictionary

  1. quartermaster train
  2. quartermaster trains
  3. quartermastered
  4. quartermastering
  5. quartermasterly
  6. quartermasters
  7. quartermasters general
  8. quartermastership
  9. quartermasterships
  10. quartermen
  11. quartermiler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quartermasters (page history and authors); quartermaster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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