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Meanings of professional soldier in English
Person who is a part of the armed forces of a state on their own accord, and not e.g. a freedom fighter, a rebel, a mercenary, a conscript, etc.
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Usage of professional soldier in English
1
Instantly the dog was a professional soldier once more-alertlyobedient and resourceful.
2
It was astonishing, but then we did not know the professional soldier.
3
I was a Regular Army professional soldier, alone, and on my own.
4
It occurs to me that I was a professional soldier, madam.
5
Chink was a professional soldier and had gone out to Mons from Sandhurst.
6
As a professional soldier, he served from Britain to Persia.
7
First and foremost, it was that of the professional soldier.
8
He then joined the trawler crews sailing from Hull, and became a professional soldier.
9
Love, they said, would destroy the value of any but the most professional soldier.
10
Grant, he argued, was a professional soldier, not a politician.
11
Your professional soldier, above all men, prefers not to throw away good men's lives.
12
He had no distrust of Irish soldiers in ordinary regiments; no professional soldier ever had.
13
The Crusader is in every sense more rational than the modern conscript or professional soldier.
14
But the knight of the early middle ages was much more than a professional soldier.
15
He was a skilled professional soldier, but Benignus alone was as strong as an ox.
16
Oddly enough, the only professional soldier present condemned her project roundly when it was mooted.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common