executive officer

executive officer
    n 1: the officer second in command
    

127 Moby Thesaurus words for "executive officer":
      ADC, CO, OD, acolyte, adjutant, advocate, agent, aid, aide,
      aide-de-camp, aider, alter ego, alternate, amicus curiae, archon,
      assistant, attendant, attorney, auxiliary, backup, backup man,
      best man, brigadier, brigadier general, captain, champion,
      chancellor, chicken colonel, chief executive,
      chief executive officer, chief of staff, coadjutant, coadjutor,
      coadjutress, coadjutrix, colonel, commandant, commander,
      commander in chief, commanding officer, commissioned officer,
      company officer, dean, deputy, dummy, exec, executive,
      executive director, executive secretary, exponent, field marshal,
      field officer, figurehead, first lieutenant, five-star general,
      four-star general, general, general officer, generalissimo, help,
      helper, helpmate, helpmeet, jemadar, junior officer, lieutenant,
      lieutenant colonel, lieutenant general, locum, locum tenens,
      magistrate, major, major general, management, managing director,
      marechal, marshal, officer, official, one-star general,
      orderly officer, paranymph, paraprofessional, pinch hitter,
      pleader, prefect, president, prexy, procurator, provost, proxy,
      representative, risaldar, second, second in command, secondary,
      secretary, senior officer, servant, shavetail, sideman, sirdar,
      staff officer, stand-in, subahdar, subaltern, sublieutenant,
      substitute, supporting actor, supporting instrumentalist,
      surrogate, the Old Man, the administration, the brass,
      three-star general, top brass, treasurer, two-star general,
      understudy, utility man, vicar, vicar general, vice,
      vice-chancellor, vice-president, vicegerent, warden