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6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay)
verb promote somebody by brevet, in the military
originInherited from the Middle English brevet (“official letter”), from the Anglo-Norman diminutive of bref (“letter”), from the Latin brevis (“short”), whence brief.
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