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- noun One who is not a
veteran .
Etymologies
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Examples
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All the editorialists would exclude many backgrounds (nonveteran, straight, etc.)
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Barker, the only nonveteran among the men sued, said Price's reputation and background are open to inspection as part of the defamation suit.
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All the editorialists would exclude many backgrounds (nonveteran, straight, etc.)
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When asked to perform the same task, Roy B, a married nonveteran who until recently had seemed a confirmed bachelor, explained that in his opinion the best-adjusted veterans benefited from wifely encouragement and a feeling of familial obligation.
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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All the editorialists would exclude many backgrounds nonveteran, straight, etc.
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All the editorialists would exclude many backgrounds nonveteran, straight, etc.
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Rove is a nonveteran, like so many in the Bush administration.
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Clearly Mr. Murtha felt it did, sharply criticizing some nonveteran hawks — notably Karl Rove, the president's chief political strategist — for not understanding the reality in Iraq, the toll of "deploying people two or three times," the complexity of the mission.
June 2006 2006
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Military veterans in prison are more than twice as likely to have been convicted for sex offenses as nonveteran inmates, federal researchers say.
From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007
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Veterans are half as likely to be incarcerated as those without service experience in the first place, researchers found, but 23 percent of the veterans in prison were sex offenders, compared with 9 percent of nonveteran inmates ....
From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007
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