noun
- Any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal.
- A lawman with the rank of sergeant.
- synonyms: police sergeant
- An English barrister of the highest rank.
- synonyms: serjeant-at-law, serjeant, sergeant-at-law
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