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  • adjective Not of or pertaining to battle.

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non- +‎ battle

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Examples

  • The Wehrmacht lost more than 100,000 killed or wounded, and nearly double that number missing or suffering nonbattle injuries.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • The Wehrmacht lost more than 100,000 killed or wounded, and nearly double that number missing or suffering nonbattle injuries.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • And I'm Marie the Queen of Romania and I'm bored to tears with the Clintons and their stupid stupid nonbattle for nothing.

    Obama Advisers See Need To Improve His Efforts With Blue Collar Voters 2009

  • In nonbattle situations she was already too small a target, too far down Temperance's gravity well and too close to Temperance's atmosphere for anything but the most heroic retrieval attempts.

    Old Mans War 2005

  • The third soldier was killed in a nonbattle - related incident.

    CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2004 2004

  • Another died after fighting in Baghdad, and a third soldier died in a nonbattle-related incident.

    CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2004 2004

  • While the frequently quoted number of Army and Army Air Force casualties stands at 936,259, this figure does not include a wide array of administrative separations as well as 9,256 nonbattle deaths or other categories that continually drained the Army of manpower and were closely monitored by senior leaders.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • These included 50,520 disability discharges due to nonbattle injuries in combat zones (such as loading accidents), combat-related psychiatric breakdowns accounting for 312,354 discharges, and medical discharges totaling a stunning 862,356 from illnesses contracted in disease-ridden overseas theaters - and none of these figures account for soldiers who were hospitalized and then returned to their units after recovery.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • They also do not include stateside administrative and medical attrition of military personnel; the Merchant Marine and Coast Guard's 10,095 dead and 12,000 other battle casualties, primarily from German subma¬rines; nor the Navy and Marines '30,442 nonbattle deaths.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Additional searches for DNA samples, nonbattle, and DMZ casualties

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

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