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veteran

A veteran is a person with long experience of a particular activity. A veteran is a person who has served in the army, especially an old soldier who has seen long service.

veteran

(= seasoned) rendered competent through trial and experience a seasoned traveler veteran steadiness a veteran officer a serviceman who has seen considerable active service the veterans laughed at the new recruits a person who has served in the armed forces an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service

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Simple sentences

My uncle is a veteran of the Vietnam War.
Tom is a veteran.
Tom is a World War II veteran.
Tom's father was a World War II veteran.
Tom's father is a Korean War veteran.
Tom is a veteran cop.
In Tatoeba, you gotta always listen to veteran members. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Tom is a veteran now.
I'm not a veteran.
Tom is a Vietnam veteran.

Movie subtitles

Jones was a World War veteran.
You can't treat a love veteran like Carmichael without some inside information.
Besides Section 40, Article 27 of the Housing Code no discharged veteran can be evicted.
I'm a battle-hardened veteran.
He was a Scottish man, a veteran of Waterloo.
You fellas wouldn't want to take a little word of advice from a combat-hardened veteran, would you?
What I just can't wrap my head around is why a 30-year veteran of the place suddenly.
A young girl wanting to leave a luxurious home. in love with a hard working ambitious war veteran and build a simple life together.
You Give Them The Veteran Pitch.
You're no veteran.
So the old veteran Shinjo is tired, eh?
What was your profession, Honourable Veteran?
He might well be a war veteran.
Sir, would you help a veteran of the Revolutionary War?
HOWEVER, ANY RESEMBLANCE TO AN ACTUAL WAR VETERAN IS PURELY ACCIDENTAL.
A young girl wanted to leave a luxurious home, elope with a hard-working, ambitious war veteran and build a simple life together.
The youngster, undefeated in 22 professional encounters, Kid Rodriguez, and the veteran, Davey Gordon, who's emerged victorious in 88 fights, while losing nine and drawing two.
There'd be a little old waiter who walked with a limp, a veteran of World War I.
The Paris-Presse guy is a 20 year veteran.
I'm a veteran.
Where were you, Hon. Veteran?
Here's a veteran - your engineer, Lieutenant Hodges.
Army veteran?
Nothing will happen, I speak as a veteran of two Bermuda campaigns.
It's that young veteran I told you about.
The youngster, undefeated in 22 professional encounters, Kid Rodriguez,. and the veteran, Davey Gordon, who's emerged victorious in 88 fights,. while losing nine and drawing two.
Aren't you a veteran of war?
Please do. - I won't give you the old veteran flyer routine, Mr. Dorfmann.
Commander Rod Jackson, veteran spaceman returns to Gamma 1 after picking up the deflector and orders for the most important mission of his career.
I get a full pension, sir. I'm a disabled veteran.
Owing to widespread rumours concerning an unidentified flying object hovering above this planet General Carrington, head of Space security, himself an ex-astronaut and Mars probe veteran, is about to speak to you on a matter of tremendous importance.
I'm sure you're a veteran, sir.
Combat veteran.
Now I entrust you to the care of miss Tanner, one of our veteran teachers here.
No, Graff, their report will be with the Alliance shortly, and you'll no longer be a nobleman of the Cyrrhenic Empire, and an honoured war veteran, you'll just be a common criminal like us.

News and current affairs

A decorated World War II veteran, Justice Stevens may well have thought that he was at least as qualified as the civilians in the Bush Justice Department to forecast the impact of the court's ruling on military efficiency.
On the one hand, there's the safe pair of hands personified by Jean-Claude Juncker, the veteran prime minister of tiny Luxembourg, who knows the ins and outs of the EU's political machinery and chairs the euro zone's ministerial set-up.
The ice began to crack on November 17, when Representative John Murtha, a hawkish Democratic congressman and marine veteran, suggested pulling troops out of Iraq in six months.
In 1953, at the age of 25 and already a wounded veteran of the 1947-49 War of Independence, Sharon was recalled to active duty to establish Israel's first commando unit.
Many of the newly elected members, moreover, are veteran Fatah bureaucrats.
Am I merely a veteran wistfully reminiscing about the old days of struggle?
But such trappings will not make the transition process any easier for a young man of less than 30 in a society where veteran military chiefs retain so much power.
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, a veteran political maverick and former mayor of Jerusalem, inspired several of Sharon's initiatives.
Veteran reporters and columnists immediately countered with questions about the Post's sources and the lack of confirmation for what it was reporting.
One army veteran said that he cries every day from the resistance and outcry he now faces from passengers, and that the stress is worse than being on active military deployment.
But, whereas Abbas appointed Salam Fayyad, a veteran economist who is respected in the West, as his new prime minister, he probably should have picked someone capable of being tough, organizing his forces, and fighting back.
But the social costs, reflected in veteran suicides (which have topped 18 per day in recent years) and family breakups, are incalculable.
After the World Cup, Vakhegula Vakhegula (The Grannies), a team of women between 50 and 84 years old, will travel to the US to play in the Veteran's Cup.
There are already rumors about a palace coup within Kadima, aimed at replacing Olmert with either the deputy prime minister, the veteran Shimon Peres, or the popular foreign minister, Tzipi Livni.
He forced out his competent chief secretary, Anson Chan, a veteran Hong Kong civil servant, for her colonial background, thereby signaling his mistrust of the entire civil service that the British had created.
Paulson, the outgoing Treasury Secretary and another Goldman Sachs veteran, left a loophole in his rescue package big enough for a truck to drive through.
This outcome was foreseen by the veteran American diplomat George F. Kennan.
The fate of the country may not hinge on Saleh, a crafty veteran who knows that his career is over.
That is why he warned the cop, Sgt. James Crowley, a veteran of the Cambridge police force, not to mess with him.
A few months earlier, the veteran Boston financier Henry Lee Higginson had sketched in a letter to President Woodrow Wilson what America's new strategy should be.

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