civilian counterpart
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcivilianandcounterpart
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civilian
adjective
uk/sɪˈvɪl.jən/us/səˈvɪl.jən/
relating to a person who is not a member of the police or the ...
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counterpart
noun[C]
uk/ˈkaʊn.tə.pɑːt/us/ˈkaʊn.t̬ɚ.pɑːrt/
a person or thing that has the same purpose as another one in a different place ...
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(Definition ofcivilianandcounterpartfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Hisciviliancounterparthas his week-ends free, and he can book ten weeks ahead if he wants to go to a football match.
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Clause 11 is, to that extent, bringing service law into line with itsciviliancounterpart.
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Unlike hisciviliancounterpart, an officer cannot look ahead or plan his budget accordingly.
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In itself that must be another good reason for equating the position of the serviceman with hisciviliancounterpart.
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He has to do a reasonable amount of entertaining, whether he wants to or not, for which, unlike hisciviliancounterpart, he cannot claim income-tax remission.
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The task of these teams—there are 78 of them—is to bring the young serving soldier of today into direct contact with hisciviliancounterpartin civilian youth organisations.
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Military corporal punishment is less severe than itsciviliancounterpart, designed not to cause undue bleeding or permanent scars.
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Officers' wives are more likely than their civilian counterparts to lose their breadwinners through the nature of their husbands' calling.
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Most types of insurance for people in the services are slightly more expensive than for their civilian counterparts.
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Such men are therefore recognised as being as equally skilled as their civilian counterparts in industry.
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Unlike their civilian counterparts, they have no territorial rights and no place on local authority housing lists.
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It will do much to bring the legal system covering the armed services into line with their civilian counterparts.
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Like their civilian counterparts, soldiers marry much younger than they used to.
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I venture to suggest that service instructors are in fact much better qualified than their civilian counterparts.
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It is a matter of justice that service men should not be placed at a disadvantage when compared with their civilian counterparts.
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Is their pay equal to that of their civilian counterparts or do they receive less?
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It has been argued that service personnel do not make as great a use of local authority services as their civilian counterparts.
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However, soldiers, sailors, air men and women would be treated on an equal footing with their civilian counterparts.
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Their civilian counterparts are able to obtain damages because of similar exposure, but those ex-service men are unable to do so.
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The standards in service schools are also starting to slip badly behind their civilian counterparts.
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