premilitary

Examples

• All

• Many young adults participate in premilitary programs to gain leadership experience before enlisting.

• The premilitary preparations included physical fitness drills and skills development.

• Premilitary and military stressful and traumatic events were assessed.

  Academic text (1997)

• The Haifa premilitary academy was the best in Israel, the doorway to the army elite.

  Fiction book (1993)

• For instance, while premilitary civilian status may differ somewhat for black and white army enlistees, social status within the army at a given rank is standard by any meaningful measure.

  Academic text (1995)

• Specifically, the "premilitary" seniors would average higher than their classmates in preferences for military influence and military spending, preferences for U.S. military supremacy, and willingness to see U.S. military interventions in other parts of the world.

  Academic text (2000)

• In The City and the Pillar, for example, Jim Willard found military comradeship an unsatisfying substitute for the premilitary homosexual relationship he had experienced as an adolescent.

  Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

P

pre-enlistment

vspremilitary

5.6

The time before someone officially joins the military or another organization

is broader, covering activities and times beyond the joining process

How Close

premilitary

• Specialized

7.4

pre-enlistment

5.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology