0 A one-star hotel or restaurant is not especially good but has achieved the lowest acceptable standard in an official quality test. --
A one-star rating does not mean terrible and a two-star rating, he suggests, is a bit more cordial than the back of a hand.
Commodore is an official flag rank when used during wartime and is equivalent to today's one-star admiral -- rear admiral (lower half).
In some countries a brigadier general is informally designated as a one-star general.
The absence of such safety features in an attempt to lower retail pricing is suspected to be one factor for the one-star crash test result.
A brigadier of the armies wore one-star and a field marshal wore two stars.
Specifically, in many navies, one-star officers are not considered to be flag officers, although this is not always the case.
This includes the parliamentarians, and those (both civilian and military) at the equivalent four-, three-, and, where useful, two- and one-star levels.
After only 11 months, the rank was reverted to just commodore but kept the one-star insignia.
