What is the difference between awol and deserter?
awol | deserter |
(military, and, generic) Absent without leave (permission).
(military) Absence without proper authority from the properly appointed place of duty, or from unit, organization, or other place of duty at which one is required to be at the time prescribed.
(military) A person who holds AWOL status.
(generic) Somebody who is absent without permission.
(figuratively) Someone or something missing.
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
Under the United States Code of Military Justice, a person who has been placed on AWOL status for more than 30 days
As a initialism awol
is (awol).As a noun deserter is
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.awol
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Alternative forms
* awol * *Adjective
(-)- The Army had a lot of AWOL soldiers.
