| NOUN | person | military recruit, recruit | a recently enlisted / enlisted soldier |
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| Meaning | A recently enlisted / enlisted soldier. | |
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| Synonym | recruit | |
| Narrower | Black and Tan | An English recruit (who wore a uniform that was black and tan) serving in the Irish constabulary to suppress the Sinn Fein rebellion of 1919 to 1921 |
| raw recruit | An inexperienced and untrained recruit | |
| sprog | A new military recruit | |
| yard bird, yardbird | A military recruit who is assigned menial tasks | |
| Broader | enlisted man | A male enlisted person in the armed forces |
| Spanish | recluta | |
| Catalan | recluta | |
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