nonveteran
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- adjective
- /nɒnˈvɛtərən/
- We find, however, that Vietnam veterans serving during 1968 and later are no different from their nonveteran counterparts, and the pre-1968 veterans are notably better off than nonveterans (although only at the 10 percent significance level) in the hazard of marital dissolution.
- nonveteran counterparts
Examples
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) (2000) reported that veterans incarcerated in federal prisons (13.2 percent) are more than twice as likely as nonveteran federal prisoners (6.4 percent) to report mental illness problems.
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In the job market, nonveteran applicants often compete for positions against those with military experience.
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About 35 percent of the veterans in state prison were convicted of homicide or sexual assault, compared with 20 percent of nonveteran offenders.
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Because only veterans respond to MEOCS, the information derived therefrom lacks nonveteran data and is less useful for this study than the General Social Survey.
Academic text (1995) -
These differences emerge even though veterans in the younger age cohort had more education and less foster care history than the nonveteran men from the same age cohort.
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The risk of homelessness is two to four times greater for female veterans than it is for nonveteran females (Gamache, Rosenheck, & Tessler, 2003).
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We found no significant correlation with any attitude variable, except (weakly and negatively) with the item for which respondents compare their own personal ease with other races to that of their nonveteran friends.
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In terms of current patterns of drug abuse, psychiatric hospitalization, marital dissolution, and lack of family support, these young homeless men appeared to be more dysfunctional and to have weaker family ties than their nonveteran counterparts.
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We have already seen in the bivariate comparisons in Table 1 that veterans young enough to have been part of the all-volunteer force tended to be homeless longer than nonveterans of similar ages, while older veterans from the era of the national draft tended to be homeless for shorter periods of time than their nonveteran counterparts.
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Many nonveteran individuals may not understand the unique challenges faced by those who have served in the military.
Antonyms
How Veteran
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Etymology
The word nonveteran uses the prefix non- meaning 'not' and the word veteran meaning 'someone with military experience', so as an adjective it describes people who are not veterans.