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- noun Plural form of
Gurkha .
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Examples
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SECRET PLAN TO DISBAND GURKHAS (RG) Tell you what lets keep the Gurkhas and disband the Labour Party and the MOD.
"ROGUE GUNNER" 2009
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ArmorGroup North America (AGNA), which is contracted to secure the US embassy in Kabul, hires many Nepalese (known as Gurkhas) whose English is not proficient.
John W. Whitehead: Privatizing the War on Terror: America's Military Contractors John W. Whitehead 2012
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Miss Wagstaff, Guerrilla Welsh-Fare and myself noted how the Gurkhas are apparently unwelcome in Wales.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Miss Wagstaff, Guerrilla Welsh-Fare and myself noted how the Gurkhas are apparently unwelcome in Wales.
The Week that was 2009
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MR. STEINBERG: The Gurkhas are a group of -- but they're a separate unit within the Indian --
Press Briefing By Dee Dee Myers ITY National Archives 1993
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You will see a fort wherever there is a pass through which the Nepalese -- that is, the Gurkhas -- were able to attack the Tibetans.
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ArmorGroup North America (AGNA), which is contracted to secure the US embassy in Kabul, hires many Nepalese (known as Gurkhas) whose English is not proficient.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com John W. Whitehead 2012
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This Socialist government would rather pay to keep tens of thousands of illegal immigrants and eastern European criminals and gypsies and the dregs from Guantanamo but think the Gurkhas are a drain on the Country.
"ROGUE GUNNER" 2009
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"It is so obvious that the treatment of the Gurkhas has been a huge injustice," she said.
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The Gurkhas could be the heart of the world's first real police force.
Sudan Watch 2008
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