master sergeant
noun
: a noncommissioned officer ranking in the army above a sergeant first class and below a staff sergeant major, in the air force above a technical sergeant and below a senior master sergeant, and in the marine corps above a gunnery sergeant and below a master gunnery sergeant
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Recent Examples on the Web More recently, in May 2021, a master sergeant in the 82nd named Martin Acevedo III was arrested in a joint raid by the Department of Homeland Security and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. 
Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2022 In 2009, an off-duty police sergeant with hearing loss, from nearby Richmond, was pulled over in Rosenberg, according to a federal lawsuit that the master sergeant, Robert Eiteman, filed. Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2022 His father was a U.S. Air Force master sergeant, his mother the daughter of a country singer. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022 The photographer who took this picture retired from the Air Force in 2013 as a master sergeant after being named military photographer of the year by the Defense Department seven times, starting with the year these photos were taken, 2002. New York Times, 12 June 2022 Clayton, 42, was a master sergeant in the police department at the time of her death and was posthumously promoted to lieutenant. Tina Burnside And Dakin Andone, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022 In 1979, after 23 years of service, Wallace retired as a master sergeant. Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2022 At the center of the group sits U.S. Army veteran KC Shaw, a 41-year-old former master sergeant who spent 20 years fighting in Iraq and slipping unnoticed into battle zones as a member of the special operations forces. Eileen Finan, PEOPLE.com, 23 Feb. 2022 Drugs may have been involved in the cases of Diamond and Disney, who were found dead on the same day in June 2021, just two weeks after an airborne master sergeant named Martin Acevedo III was charged with trafficking cocaine. Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2022 See More
Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2022 In 2009, an off-duty police sergeant with hearing loss, from nearby Richmond, was pulled over in Rosenberg, according to a federal lawsuit that the master sergeant, Robert Eiteman, filed. Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2022 His father was a U.S. Air Force master sergeant, his mother the daughter of a country singer. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022 The photographer who took this picture retired from the Air Force in 2013 as a master sergeant after being named military photographer of the year by the Defense Department seven times, starting with the year these photos were taken, 2002. New York Times, 12 June 2022 Clayton, 42, was a master sergeant in the police department at the time of her death and was posthumously promoted to lieutenant. Tina Burnside And Dakin Andone, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022 In 1979, after 23 years of service, Wallace retired as a master sergeant. Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2022 At the center of the group sits U.S. Army veteran KC Shaw, a 41-year-old former master sergeant who spent 20 years fighting in Iraq and slipping unnoticed into battle zones as a member of the special operations forces. Eileen Finan, PEOPLE.com, 23 Feb. 2022 Drugs may have been involved in the cases of Diamond and Disney, who were found dead on the same day in June 2021, just two weeks after an airborne master sergeant named Martin Acevedo III was charged with trafficking cocaine. Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1920, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
master sergeant
noun
: a noncommissioned officer in the army ranking above a sergeant first class or in the air force ranking above a technical sergeant or in the marines ranking above a gunnery sergeant