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Definition of Noncombatant
1. Noun. A member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon).
2. Adjective. Used of civilians in time of war.
3. Adjective. Member of armed forces whose duties do not include fighting as e.g. a chaplain or surgeon.
Definition of Noncombatant
1. n. Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.
Definition of Noncombatant
1. Noun. A non-fighting member of the armed forces ¹
2. Noun. A civilian in time of conflict ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Noncombatant
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noncombatant
Literary usage of Noncombatant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the International Commission to Inquire Into the Causes and (1914)
"CHAPTER II The War and the noncombatant Population 1. THE PLIGHT OF THE MACEDONIAN
MOSLEMS DURING THE FIRST WAR The first of the Balkan campaigns was ..."
2. A History of the Great War by Bertram Benedict (1919)
"So far as may be found feasible by each Division, Camp, or Post Commander, future
assignments of such persons to noncombatant military service will be ..."
3. Publication by Division of Intercourse and Education (1914)
"CHAPTER II The War and the noncombatant Population 1. THE PLIGHT OF THE MACEDONIAN
MOSLEMS DURING THE FIRST WAR The first of the Balkan campaigns was ..."
4. A Service of Love in War Time: American Friends Relief Work in Europe, 1917-1919 by Rufus Matthew Jones (1920)
"So far as may be found feasible by each Division, Camp, or Post Commander, future
assignments of such persons to noncombatant military service will be ..."
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