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civilian
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[ adjective ] (military) associated with or performed by civilians as contrasted with the military
Examples "civilian clothing" "civilian life" Used in print (Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)These problems frequently arise where a firm is making items for the Government not directly along the lines of its normal civilian business or where the Government specifications require operations that the firm did not understand when it undertook the contract . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)The actual function of patristic civilian canonist scholastic communism was adequately set_forth by St._Gregory almost a millennium before More wrote Utopia . (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)The Bathyrans ran a check on Globocnik and had only to conclude that he was in a tug_of_war with Hans_Frank and the civilian administrators . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (military) a nonmilitary citizen
Used in print (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)Mr._Christiansen knows that a soldier will get the Distinguished_Service_Medal for conduct that would land him in prison for life or the electric_chair as a civilian . Related terms |
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