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quartermaster

quar·ter·mas·ter

Today it means: An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies. Master of quartering. Full definition →

Middle English quartermayster ← Dutch kwartiermeester

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Dutch · borrowed fromkwartiermeester
Middle English · inherited fromquartermayster
English todayquartermaster

From Middle English quartermayster, quartermaistre, equivalent to quarter + master. Perhaps reinforced by and merged with Dutch kwartiermeester, kwartier-meester. Compare German Quartiermeister, French quartier-maître.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.