professional soldier
Example Sentences
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As a professional soldier based in Lviv in western Ukraine, Maksym had not told his mother that his air assault force had been sent south to stop the Russian offensive.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2023
The man said he declined the offer because he was not a professional soldier and had never fired a shot since completing his service.
From Reuters ● Jul. 8, 2022
Byun voluntarily joined as a non-commissioned officer to become a professional soldier.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
Some celebrants of today’s volunteer Army think that the last centuries’ conscripts were comparatively inept, but Mr. Beevor, himself a former professional soldier, shows that many of these amateurs became pretty good at their trade.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2015
The professional soldier as distinguished from the feudal militia or the train-bands of the towns was odious to the later middle ages.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
