| 单词 | military age |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilitary age military age n. the age at which a person becomes eligible for military service; the age range within which a person is eligible for military service. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age yearOE scorea1400 seventeena1568 threescorea1616 jubileea1640 military age1656 legal age1658 tecnogoniaa1676 sixty1717 forty1732 fifty1738 seven-year-old1762 teen1789 septuagenarianism1824 sexagenarianism1824 day-old1831 seventeen-year-old1858 centenarianism1863 roaring forties1867 twenties1874 leaving age1875 school-leaving age1881 octogenarianism1883 reading age1906 three1909 teenage1912 eleven-plus1937 society > armed hostility > military service > [noun] > liability for service > military age military age1656 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 210 When they came to be of military age, they were listed of the Mora, and so continued in readinesse for publique Service under the Discipline of the Polemarches. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 300 It [sc. the state] may..oblige either all the citizens of the military age, or a certain number of them, to join in some measure the trade of a soldier to whatever other trade or profession they may happen to carry on... Its military force is [then] said to consist in a militia. View more context for this quotation 1848 Southern Q. Rev. 14 396 The proportion of persons in France of the military age, to the whole number, is as 5626 to 10,000 of the population. 1940 Amer. Pigeon Jrnl. Dec. 420/1 We have hundreds of young men of military age who have had the advantage of the experience and training of the pigeoneers of 1917–1918. 1991 B. Turner And Policeman Smiled (BNC) 204 In 1940, any refugee of military age was less likely to be called up than to be sent down, to an internment camp. < as lemmas |
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