单词 | to muster out |
释义 | > as lemmasto muster out to muster out U.S. transitive. To summon to a muster in order to discharge from military service; to discharge from service. Usually in passive. ΚΠ 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 25 Feb. 5/3 Drunken or dishonest subalterns who have been ‘mustered out’—i.e., expelled the army for misconduct. 1883 J. Hay Bread-winners 242 I wouldn't muster out that army of yours till to-morrow. 1903 J. Fox Little Shepherd xxvii. 27 Chad got permission straightway to go back to Ohio and be mustered out with his old regiment. 1918 W. Faulkner Let. 17 Nov. in Thinking of Home (1992) 130 We hear one minute that we are to be mustered out, and next that we spend the winter at flying camp. 1974 R. A. Caro Power Broker vii. xliv. 1027 Mustered out, he used the GI Bill to attend not college but the Actors Laboratory. < as lemmas |
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