"half-colonel" meaning in English

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      "form": "half-colonels",
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      "expansion": "half-colonel (plural half-colonels)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, Olivia Manning, Friends and Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy; 3), Bath: Chivers, page 895 (in series)",
          "text": "'Yep. Lieutenant one day; major by the end of the week: lieutenant-colonel the week after. That's what it's like.' He snuffed down his nose in self-contempt. 'The office in Cairo is full of bogus half-colonels like me.'",
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      "glosses": [
        "lieutenant colonel"
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          "lieutenant colonel",
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        "(colloquial, UK) lieutenant colonel"
      ],
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  "word": "half-colonel"
}

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    {
      "form": "half-colonels",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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      "expansion": "half-colonel (plural half-colonels)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
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        {
          "ref": "1965, Olivia Manning, Friends and Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy; 3), Bath: Chivers, page 895 (in series)",
          "text": "'Yep. Lieutenant one day; major by the end of the week: lieutenant-colonel the week after. That's what it's like.' He snuffed down his nose in self-contempt. 'The office in Cairo is full of bogus half-colonels like me.'",
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      ],
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        "lieutenant colonel"
      ],
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        "(colloquial, UK) lieutenant colonel"
      ],
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        "UK",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "half-colonel"
}