retired army

collocation in English

meaningsofretiredandarmy

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retired
adjective
uk
/rɪˈtaɪəd/us
/rɪˈtaɪrd/
If someone is retired, they have stopped working permanently, usually because ...
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army
noun
uk
/ˈɑː.mi/us
/ˈɑːr.mi/
a particular country's ...
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(Definition ofretiredandarmyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Some of them are robust—retiredarmyofficers and their wives—and they are not habitually weak kneed in the face of a real threat.
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A proper insurance scheme is in exactly the same position as the payment of pensions to school teachers, policemen andretiredarmyand navy officers.
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That course was most successful and a number of married women whose children had grown up completed it, as did a number ofretiredarmyand navy personnel.
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Even some rural district councils now employ such people asretiredarmymajors who can read maps to ensure that footpaths are kept open.
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It consists of policemen, retired policemen, army officers,retiredarmyofficers and professional people such as solicitors and accountants, for example, as well as ordinary factory workers.
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Thousands of military reserve officers and volunteers were on standby, along with helicopters with oneretiredarmygeneral describing the operations as preparing for war.
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They were nearly all men and were recruited from the ranks ofretiredarmypersonnel and police.
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His father was aretiredarmycaptain serving as a customs officer.
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His father, aretiredarmycaptain, came from landed gentry.
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A controversy rose during the campaign about whether aretiredarmyofficer could legally run for a civil office.
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It started as a co-operative housing society venture forretiredarmypersonnel, but now has houses which belong to other defence services as well as civilians.
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Due to the massive publicity given in the state media, this statement was taken by the whole country as betrayal of army officers by theretiredarmycommander himself.
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