returning soldier

collocation in English

meaningsofreturnandsoldier

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return
adjective[before noun]
uk
/rɪˈtɜːn/us
/rɪˈtɝːn/
The return part of a journey is the part in which you go back to the place where ...
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soldier
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsəʊl.dʒər/us
/ˈsoʊl.dʒɚ/
a person who is in an army and wears its uniform, especially someone who fights when there is ...
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(Definition ofreturnandsoldierfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I have no doubt that thereturningsoldierwould join in the censure.
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That would be poor consolation to thereturningsoldier.
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They are quite a trap for thereturningsoldier.
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Their redemption presents one of the problems of demobilisation at which the country will arrive first, and it intimately concerns thereturningsoldier.
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Everyreturningsoldierwill require a home in which to live.
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Here are the four conditions, at least one of which must be satisfied by thereturningsoldier, if he is to be allowed to start his own business.
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On the other hand, we have to consider the urgent needs of the population, and not only of the population, at home, but of thereturningsoldieras well.
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Those steps are necessary to fit thereturningsoldiernot for his old civilian life but for something that may offer a better prospect than his old civilian life.
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Edmunds, who has had great experience of these areas and who stressed again, with many suggestions, the problem of thereturningsoldier.
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Returning soldiers, sailors and airmen will insist on this matter being settled.
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Sydneysiders looked on in silence, aghast at the emaciated state of the returning soldiers.
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When he got off the plane, hippies threw bags of dog feces at him and other returning soldiers.
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The returning soldiers were permitted to keep that part of their equipment and therefore easily retained their new shaving habits.
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Ominously, at the same moment, they notice another train arriving in town loaded with wounded returning soldiers, who are carried off on stretchers.
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Learning that her brother had been declared missing in action, she sought to gain information about his fate from the returning soldiers.
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The king presented medals to the returning soldiers from the platform in the sanctuary.
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