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MILITARY RECRUIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military recruit mean? 

MILITARY RECRUIT (noun)
  The noun MILITARY RECRUIT has 1 sense:

1. a recently enlisted soldierplay

  Familiarity information: MILITARY RECRUIT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MILITARY RECRUIT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A recently enlisted soldier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

military recruit; recruit

Hypernyms ("military recruit" is a kind of...):

enlisted man (a male enlisted person in the armed forces)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military recruit"):

Black and Tan (an English recruit (who wore a uniform that was black and tan) serving in the Irish constabulary to suppress the Sinn Fein rebellion of 1919 to 1921)

raw recruit (an inexperienced and untrained recruit)

sprog (a new military recruit)

yard bird; yardbird (a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks)


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