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honorable discharge
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An honorable discharge would mean that any reserve unit with openings would have to accept her application to fly.
▪ He received an honorable discharge in 1968.
▪ He wanted his honorable discharge reinstated.
▪ Then the Air Force could hardly acquiesce to an honorable discharge.
▪ With a less than honorable discharge, Smith may have difficulty obtaining employment.

Usage examples of "honorable discharge".

The ice plant did not take up much of his time, and he had a clear service record and an honorable discharge himself.

At the very least, it would bring an end to any hope of reestablishing himself as a Starfleet officer, or possibly even of getting an honorable discharge.

Another parallel is that of Thomas Martinez, the FBI infiltrator within the radical right Silent Brotherhood, who was given an honorable discharge during basic training.

And so to prove my worth I'm always the first one to jump up, stand on the bed and place my hand respectfully over my heart -- I'm only a civilian -- to show my allegiance to my father's madness for a country that has given him a barge and a badge at Okinawa in exchange for an honorable discharge.

Framed beside the photograph were his captain's bars, service medals, and honorable discharge certificate.

In two weeks your seven-year period of enlistment will be up, and because of your fine record Captain Zekial has authorized a doubling of the usual mustering-out pay, an honorable discharge with band music, as well as your free transport back to Earth.

He had been quite sure (through private knowledge) that no sergeant could cause Mike any permanent distress, and contrariwise, Jubal was not troubled by what might happen to sergeants or other ranks-an unreconciled old reactionary, Jubal had burned his own honorable discharge and all that went with it on the day that the United States had ceased having its own armed forces.