Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ex-serviceman \ex-serviceman\ n. a person who has served in the armed forces.
Syn: veteran, vet.
Wiktionary
n. A man who used to be in the armed forces
WordNet
Usage examples of "ex-serviceman".
Before people start asking why this deranged ex-serviceman shot an admiral, committed two homicides in Fairfax County, and tried to kill two federal officers, all because two staffies in Saigon were afraid to tell their boss that one of their skippers had abandoned a guy in the Rung Sat zone?
What made this case so interesting was that the fingerprints of the male in the case had checked out as those of Paul Janus Finnegan, an ex-serviceman who had disappeared in 1946 from his apartment in Bloomington, Indiana, where he had been attending the university.
Omuro had gouged the poor, especially the nearly destitute jobless ex-servicemen during the depression years of the early ‘fifties.
Omuro had gouged the poor, especially the nearly destitute jobless ex-servicemen during the depression years of the early 'fifties.
A shark who had never made repairs, had partitioned rooms smaller and smaller, raised rents…Omuro had gouged the poor, especially the nearly destitute jobless ex-servicemen during the depression years of the early ’fifties.
If many of my supervisors are ex-servicemen who would have had a hard time making sergeant in the Army, I still have a lot of retired NCOs with a good retirement pay already who are willing to work as supervisors because they can wear a powder blue uniform with red stripes on the legs and gold lieutenant's bars on the shoulders.
No slur on your former school—and we do like to give ex-servicemen a break—but this school has higher standards.