Usually means: Abandonment of duty or obligation.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. desertion: Merriam-Webster
  2. desertion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desertion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. desertion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. desertion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Desertion, desertion: Wordnik
  7. desertion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. desertion: Wiktionary
  9. desertion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. desertion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. desertion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. desertion: Dictionary.com
  13. desertion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Desertion (disambiguation), Desertion (novel), Desertion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Desertion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. desertion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. desertion: Rhymezone
  18. Desertion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. desertion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. desertion: FreeDictionary.org
  21. desertion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. desertion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. desertion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. desertion: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. desertion: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. desertion: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Desertion: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. desertion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desertion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desertion: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desertion: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Desertion: Catholic Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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noun:  The act of deserting.

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