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单词 reduction to the ranks
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reduction to the ranks
8. Military. The action of stripping an officer of his or her rank; demotion. Also reduction to the ranks.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > appointment to rank > [noun] > demotion to lower rank
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1806 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) 78 I examined into the conduct of my sergeant, and found that he was guilty and punished him by reduction, &c.
1833 G. C. D'Aguilar Observ. Pract. & Forms District Courts Martial 64 A Lance Corporal may at any time..be ordered to return to his duty as a Private; it is therefore unnecessary that his reduction should form part of the sentence of a Court Martial.
1847 P. G. Ferguson Diary 5 July in S.W. Hist. (1936) IV. 347 The decision of the court-martial had been read, confirming McCabe's reduction to the ranks and sentencing him to fifteen days' confinement.
1970 L. Deighton Bomber (1972) xxxiv. 468 The above-named has been found unsuitable for any further duties in aircrew capacity and his reduction from NCO rank has therefore been ratified by Air Ministry.
2001 Times (Nexis) 16 Mar. An appeal..against a sentence of 265 days detention and reduction to the ranks imposed at a district court-martial at Aldershot on March 14, 2000.
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