Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make veteran.
- To reënlist for service as a soldier: often abbreviated to
veteran .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb United States To reënlist for service as a soldier.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb US, intransitive To
reenlist forservice as asoldier .
Etymologies
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veteran + -ize
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Examples
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War Department, promising a thirty-days furlough to all soldiers who would "veteranize" -- viz., reenlist for the rest of the war.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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War Department, promising a thirty-days furlough to all soldiers who would "veteranize" -- viz., reenlist for the rest of the war.
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War Department, promising a thirty-days furlough to all soldiers who would "veteranize" -- viz., reenlist for the rest of the war.
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 2 1855
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War Department, promising a thirty-days furlough to all soldiers who would "veteranize" -- viz., reenlist for the rest of the war.
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