breveting

Variant of brevet

noun

Mil., Historical a commission nominally promoting an officer to a higher honorary rank without higher pay but, sometimes, with greater authority

Origin: ME < OFr, dim. of bref, brief

transitive verb brevetted or breveted, brevetting or breveting

to give a brevet to
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