enlisted woman
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5.0
- noun
- /ɪnˈlɪstɪd ˈwʊmən/
:
mujer soldado
- The military provides training and support for enlisted women who wish to advance their careers in service.
- percent of enlisted women
- Navy enlisted women
Examples
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In World War I, many enlisted women took on vital roles as nurses and telephone operators in the military.
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A few enlisted women begin their service as typists and are then organized into either squads or platoons
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As enlisted women, they can leave camp once a week in turn, but most of the time they are required to go out in groups.
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There are a few career soldiers among Chinese enlisted women who serve longer terms, although there are no data available to describe them.
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Their love lives and marriages are affected by their service because military regulations do not allow enlisted women to date or marry.
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Enlisted women are mostly concentrated in telephone companies as switchboard operators at and above the army level.
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Results of this study indicate that Navy enlisted women's health status has changed across the 15 years, a conclusion drawn from trends observed in their hospitalization rates.
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Estimates from the early 1980s indicated that approximately 10 percent of active-duty military women were pregnant at any time; the pregnancy rate for Army active-duty women in 1985 was reported at 9 percent for enlisted women and 5 percent for officers.
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Among these, 104,000 were officers (76.5 percent of total military women), and 32,000 were enlisted women (23.5 percent).
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At present, the four branches of the military have one of the largest populations of female members in the world—a population of approximately 229,000 officers and enlisted women, which accounts for 10.8 percent of the total force.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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1.1
A person who serves in an army and fights for their country
Antonyms
How Senior
- Specialized
3
3.6
- Specialized
2
6.2
1
5.0
149
3.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a woman who serves as an enlisted member of the armed forces' is directly and compositionally derived from 'enlist' (to join military service) plus 'woman'. The adjective 'enlisted' is a regular participial formation indicating membership rather than officer rank, a transparent morphological pattern that a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer.
Etymology
The compound enlisted woman uses enlisted, which originally meant someone put on a list to serve in the military, and woman, meaning a female person. So an enlisted woman is a female member of the military who serves as a regular soldier, not as an 'officer'.