单词 | recruiting station |
释义 | > as lemmasrecruiting station recruiting station n. †(a) a resting place (obsolete); (b) Military a place where people can enlist for military service. ΚΠ 1776 J. Bristow in Minutes Evid. Trial Warren Hastings (1788–95) X. App. 305. 1418 [I] also wrote to Colonel Stibbert, requesting of him to direct the Gentlemen to repair to their Recruiting Stations. 1841 Southern Literary Messenger 7 838/1 I made no resistance as they placed me before the commandant of the recruiting station. 1845 J. C. Frémont Rep. Exploring Exped. Rocky Mts. 160 The bottoms of this river..and of some of the creeks..form a natural resting and recruiting station for travellers. 1943 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 30 May 1/1 They rushed to the recruiting stations of the armed services demanding that they be sworn in. 1989 B. Spock & M. Morgan Spock on Spock iv. 54 All the older boys..began collecting American war posters. We haunted the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps recruiting stations. 2005 Afghanistan Security (U.S. Govt. Accountability Office) 11 Defense..is establishing recruiting stations in each of Afghanistan's 34 provinces. < as lemmas |
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