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- noun Plural form of
draftee .
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Examples
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There's talk that they'll urge the big name draftees to avoid the NFL draft ceremony and perhaps attend an alternate event.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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There's talk that they'll urge the big name draftees to avoid the NFL draft ceremony and perhaps attend an alternate event.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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There's talk that they'll urge the big name draftees to avoid the NFL draft ceremony and perhaps attend an alternate event.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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A year ago, apparently, the students in question concocted a crude and disgusting new version of fantasy sports, in which the "draftees" were not prime athletes but unsuspecting eighth grade girls, and where the competition was based on how "far" the boys could get the girls to go sexually.
Deborah M. Roffman: Teen Sexuality: Sex as Sport and Girls as Game Deborah M. Roffman 2010
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By 'draftees' he meant members of the space and merchant fleets who had not voluntarily applied for retraining but who had been classified by the positronic brain as likely candidates on the basis of all available data.
Vagabond of Space Ernsting, Walter 1976
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XXXXXXXXXXXX stated that the Tigers require at least one person between the ages of 18 and 35 per family to fight for the LTTE, apparently believing that if the "draftees" are at least 18 years old, the international community cannot criticize the Tigers for requiring military service.
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He was swearing, shouting and "draftees", made them parade, do push-ups, paint grass and snow, clean shoes of the superiors, and fulfil other absurd orders.
Хартия'97 :: Новости из Беларуси - Белорусские новости - Республика Беларусь - Минск 2009
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Rude awakening no. 1, first time in their proud history they allowed "draftees" (or needed them
ronald dean douglas 2010
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As a result, there were questions about not only who immigrants supported in the war but where the loyalties of immigrant draftees might lie.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: The Long Way Home by David Laskin » Print 2010
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As a result, there were questions about not only who immigrants supported in the war but where the loyalties of immigrant draftees might lie.
Book Review: The Long Way Home by David Laskin « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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