SERVICEMEN Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

servicemen

noun

plural of serviceman

as in soldiers

a person engaged in military service wishing our servicemen overseas the best of luck

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Recent Examples of servicemen The video showed the man being accompanied by two FSB servicemen onto a plane, then in a cage in a Moscow court, which ordered him detained for nearly two months. — CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026 Kelly gave the example that six years ago NIPSCO employed 230 linemen and now there are approximately 180, a 22% decrease, and gas servicemen are down from the 180 the company budgeted for just a few years ago to 143. — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 The presidential decree, which was published Monday on Russia’s official legal information database, will put the size of Russia’s armed forces at 2,441,630, including 1,550,500 active servicemen. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026 About 167,000 servicemen have returned from Ukraine, presidential administration official Sergei Novikov said in December, although Russian media reports and experts say the number is probably higher. — ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026 Its most prominent feature was the Rock, a small mountain honeycombed with thirty-four miles of tunnels that housed some sixteen thousand British servicemen as well as an American liaison office. — Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026 It's cost American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars and the lives of 18 servicemen. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026 The wreckage of the plane and 10 of the servicemen were never found. — Hope McKenney, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026 Rivers’ goal is to regenerate the psychic nerves of these shattered servicemen. — The Know, Denver Post, 7 June 2026

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Our soldiers, who have been on the front line for weeks and months, are being delivered food and water using appropriate drones with Starlink.

— Kristin Wright, NPR, 18 Oct. 2026
An Army officer who fought with his superiors for his soldiers’ safety.

— Washington Post readers, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2026

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