Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being a soldier; the act or condition of serving as a soldier; military duty; campaigning.
- noun The act of feigning to work; shirking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier.
- noun Colloq. U.S. The act of feigning to work. See the Note under
Soldier , v. i., 2.
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- verb Present participle of
soldier .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the evasion of work or duty
- noun skills that are required for the life of soldier
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Examples
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Finally, the men most opposed to the corps were those with the least investment in soldiering; they were significantly more likely than other men to think that their own work was "not worthwhile" and that they "would be more useful" as defense workers than as soldiers. 60
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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One thing about 37 years of soldiering is that you do learn how to read an organization chart and how to take orders.
Canada-U.S. Relations in the New Era; A Diplomat's View 1993
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This thing you call soldiering is not what you think it is.
Augusta County: Tony Pastor to Annie Harris, May 4, 1861 Tony Pastor 1861
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The men reinforce the idea of soldiering as frat boys with guns: they party, call each other gay, wrestle around, watch a lot of porn and do public service -- in this case serve their country with diligence.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Craig Ferguson... Genius? Michael Giltz 2011
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The men reinforce the idea of soldiering as frat boys with guns: they party, call each other gay, wrestle around, watch a lot of porn and do public service -- in this case serve their country with diligence.
Michael Giltz: Cannes 2010 Day Four and Five: Mike Leigh's New Gem and Inside Job Rocks The Fest 2010
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“The boy is in love with the idea of soldiering,” said Loaf.
Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010
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"And as for chucking their arms round my neck and kissing me," and he indicated another episode, "all my old mother said -- she was alive then -- was that she 'hoped I'd done fooling about furrin' parts as I called soldiering, and come home to live respectable, better late than never. '
Queen Sheba's Ring Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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"A woman who calls soldiering a trade ought to be forcibly married to a parson," said the Colonel passionately.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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Remembrance Day actually about thinking about the specific soldiers who died, or about keeping the idea of soldiering alive?
No Media Kings 2008
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Not by valor (literally "soldiering"), not by strength, but with My Spirit.
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