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单词 national serviceman
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national servicemann.

Brit. /ˌnaʃn̩(ə)l ˈsəːvɪsmən/, /ˌnaʃən(ə)l ˈsəːvɪsmən/, U.S. /ˌnæʃən(ə)l ˈsərvəsˌmæn/, /ˌnæʃn(ə)l ˈsərvəsˌmæn/
Inflections: Plural national servicemen.
Forms: 1900s– national service man, 1900s– national serviceman. Also with capital initials.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: national adj., serviceman n.
Etymology: < national adj. + serviceman n., after national service n.
A man performing national service.
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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).
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