Usually means: Person who abandons their duty.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word deserter:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. deserter: Merriam-Webster
  2. deserter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deserter: Collins English Dictionary
  4. deserter: Vocabulary.com
  5. Deserter, deserter: Wordnik
  6. deserter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. deserter: Wiktionary
  8. Deserter, deserter: Dictionary.com
  9. deserter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Deserter (song), Deserter, The Deserter (poem), The Deserter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Deserter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. deserter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. deserter: Rhymezone
  14. Deserter, dserter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. deserter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. Deserter: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  17. deserter: FreeDictionary.org
  18. deserter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. deserter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. deserter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. deserter: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deserter: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deserter: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deserter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. deserter: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See desert as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (military) A person who has physically removed him- or herself from the control or direction of a military or naval unit with the intention of permanently leaving
▸ noun:  Under the United States Code of Military Justice, a person who has been placed on AWOL status for more than 30 days

Similar:
recreant, defector, renegade, apostate, desertion, desister, transfuge, separation, destitution, seceder, more...

Opposite:
loyalist, defender, adherent, faithful

Types:
AWOL, traitor, defector, more...

Phrases:
13 May 1945 German deserter execution, more...

Adjectives:
british, french, first, german, american, confederate, young, military, english, russian, single

Colors:
    beige,     sand,     khaki,     dust,     taupe, more...



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Similar:
recreant, defector, renegade, apostate, desertion, desister, transfuge, separation, destitution, seceder, more...

Opposite:
loyalist, defender, adherent, faithful

Types:
AWOL, traitor, defector, more...

Phrases:
13 May 1945 German deserter execution, more...

Adjectives:
british, french, first, german, american, confederate, young, military, english, russian, single

Colors:
    beige,     sand,     khaki,     dust,     taupe, more...



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