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cashiered
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Definition:discharged from military service
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"[...] Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven. It is the most valuable equipment in any military man, and when an officer loses it he should ask to be cashiered and returned to civilian life to take up bookkeeping.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.277 (1948)
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Inevitably his appeals for financial assistance were ignored and, though not cashiered from the army, he was pointedly cold-shouldered by his brother officers.Jonathan Keates. ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review, 402 (2012)
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"Doctor Gambit," should not be cashiered in favor of "this Doctor Lydgate," who was capable of performing the most astonishing cures, and rescuing people altogether given up by other practitioners.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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He had before served me a scurvy trick, which set the queen a-laughing, although at the same time she was heartily vexed, and would have immediately cashiered him, if I had not been so generous as to intercede.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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