aspirant

Aspirant (seldom adspirant , Latin aspirare = to breathe on, to strive towards):

• a touched consonant, see aspiration (phonetics)

in education:

• a civil servant on revocation, see candidate (civil service law)
• in some religious orders a postulant
• a sea pilot in training, see candidates ( sea pilotage)
• in the USSR and its successor states, as well as in the countries of the Eastern Bloc, a student who is continuing his studies in order to obtain a further scientific degree, see Aspirantur

as rank:

• the lowest rank of the Austrian executive for a civil servant candidate in basic training, see Federal Police (Austria) and Justice Guard
• an officer candidate at an officer school of the Swiss Army
• as an aspirant ( Oberfähnrich ) an officer candidate in the French armed forces, before the Élève officier ( ensign )
• as an aspirante a oficial an officer candidate in the Brazilian or Portuguese armed forces

as a former rank:

• a higher candidate for the paymaster or engineering career in the German Imperial Navy . The aspirants and senior aspirants had the rank of deck officer or senior deck officer . They ranked ahead of the applicants and senior applicants, see ranks of the Imperial Navy
• the "Officer A d spirant first class" ( sic ) or Junker ( ensign ), a candidate officer in the former Bavarian Army , before the "Officer A d spirant second class" or Kadet ( ensign )

See also:

Wiktionary: Aspirant  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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