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active duty

noun as in full-time military service

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Active-duty spies would read him and they talked to him, and often it was hard to tell where fiction and fact diverged.

In an active-duty force of 1.1 million, this equals a reported assault rate of 3.8 per 1,000 service members.

He had left the active duty military and hit what he has since called his personal “rock bottom,” including a suicide attempt.

Active-duty personnel alone amount to more than 1.3 million people, augmented by another 800,000 reservists.

He has continued on active duty and received promotions for time served.

In 1800 he was relieved by St Vincent, and retired from active duty after fifty-nine years' service.

The service now scarcely admitted it, and the active duty apparently restored his health; at all events we now hear no more of it.

His retirement from active duty and long delays in publication greatly handicapped him in producing a satisfactory piece of work.

For three years Hubert was on active duty, when he became one of the unlucky prisoners at Salisbury.

It had evidently been written just before Tom had been called to active duty in the trenches.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to active duty, such as: active duty for training, active service, ad, full-time training duty, and mobilization.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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