subalterns in English
noun
1
an officer in the British army below the rank of captain, especially a second lieutenant.
This paramilitary force, which in 1861 numbered only 120 troopers, was organised into small divisions in which two or three European officers and subalterns each commanded four to six Aboriginal troopers.
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1. Off-duty, the subalterns took to their jeeps and accelerated into the desert to shoot antelope.