Crossword clues for noncombatant
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Noncombatant \Non*com"bat*ant\, n.
(Mil.) Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.
A person not attached to a military unit, or not participating in the military activities of a war; a civilian; as, the bomb killed twenty noncombatants.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A non-fighting member of the armed forces 2 A civilian in time of conflict n. 1 A non-fighting member of the armed forces 2 A civilian in time of conflict
WordNet
adj. used of civilians in time of war
member of armed forces whose duties do not include fighting as e.g. a chaplain or surgeon
n. a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon)
Usage examples of "noncombatant".
This was long enough, if just barely, to send the noncombatants on foot thirty kilometers up the road northward in the direction of Chiriqui Grande on the Caribbean coast.
Troops and rebels alike both ignored Toby and Flynn as obvious noncombatants, but flying bullets and disrupter beams and crumbling buildings made no such distinction.
These were noncombatants, cooks and laundrymaids and aged bodyservants and footmen, all of them frightened refugees from the bloody tumult going on upstairs.
The soldier barked orders at his noncombatants and traveled as lightly as he could as quickly as he could.
Rather, he left most of his noncombatants behind to do the gathering up and sorting out, while he pressed on with his legions.
The wagons, oxen, mules and horses had been brought in while the red flags were being planted and the surveying was still going on, then were left under the care of a skeleton crew because noncombatants were also being pressed into service.
And while the troops at the head and the tail of the column held the Eburones at bay, the troops in the middle, helped by the noncombatants and slaves, began to throw up defensive walls.
Suitable branches lopped from the trees Quintus Cicero was logging were stockpiled, and the specialist noncombatants who did nothing save make scorpion bolts set to shaping them, checking against templates to make sure the flanges were correct.
Now he also had 5,000 ex-Republican veteran soldiers, 1,000 noncombatants, and a war fleet commanded by Euphranor.
The noncombatants and baggage train attendants were clad in armor and made to imitate soldiers at the brandishing of arms ritual, while the soldiers toiled.
Megan, Hopie, and the other noncombatants retreated to the restaurant chamber, while the others took laser pistols and went out to defend the train from either end.
Operation Affick meant that the interception would be inside the Solar System, increasing the urgency for the already overloaded facilities to get the remaining 20 per cent of the noncombatants down on the ground.
Women declared liable for peacetime conscription for noncombatant and second-line tasks in Domination.
She was a noncombatant in the battle of the sexes, and she was temporary, as perhaps a more textured personality could not have been.
He knew enough about drugs from civvy street, where he had worked as an assistant druggist, which no bastard but him knew, because then the bastards would've put him in the Medical Corps, and that would've meant no fighting and no killing, and no self-respecting Aussie'd let his country down and dear old Blighty down by being just a stinking noncombatant medical orderly.