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noncombatant definition

non·com·bat·ant (nän′kəm bat′'nt, nän′käm′bə tənt)

noun

  1. a member of the armed forces whose activities do not include actual combat, as a chaplain
  2. any civilian in wartime

adjective

  1. not involving combat
  2. of noncombatants

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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