单词 | national serviceman |
释义 | national servicemann. A man performing national service. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > conscript levy1611 pressman1638 forced man1748 lotman1758 conscript1798 draftee1866 draft1916 chocolate soldier1939 choco1940 selectee1940 G.I.1943 national serviceman1949 1949 Times 20 Oct. 5/5 The Secretary of State for War gave an assurance that no national service man would be posted to the Far East with less than 18 weeks' service. 1957 R. N. C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon vii. 19 Those who have taken up soldiering as a profession as opposed to National Servicemen, who have not. 1973 D. Lees Rape of Quiet Town vii. 113 A number of former national service men who had never heard a shot fired in anger. 2000 D. Oliver Salvo for Afr. 47 Round about 1950, my older school friends in Bournemouth suddenly grew up and became National Servicemen off to fight the Mau Mau in Kenya. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1949 |
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