dishonorable discharge

1. 1.

   a discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder)

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Questions about dishonorable discharge

What does dishonorable discharge mean?

dishonorable discharge means "a discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder)".

Is dishonorable discharge a common word?

dishonorable discharge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.