| 单词 | colour service |
| 释义 | > as lemmascolour service colour service n. Military full-time service with a regiment, as distinguished from service on reserve. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military service > [noun] > type or manner of service > active field service1596 active service1658 active duty1801 colour service1877 1877 Rep. Sel. Comm. Soldiers, Sailors & Marines 3/2 We should lose in the reserve the very best men if you took them at the end of their colour service and not at the end of their engagement. 1884 Sir F. S. Roberts in 19th Cent. June 1063 The period of colour-service was raised to seven years for soldiers at home. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 8 Feb. 8/3 Saturday's deputation asked for the recognition of colour service in the Forces for pensionable purposes when they reached the age of sixty. 1999 Soldier June 68/2 When I leave the Army in December I will have completed 12 years and eight months of colour service all, less a two-year ERE (extra-regimentally employed), in Osnabrück. < as lemmas |
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