draft evader

1. 1.

   someone who is drafted and illegally refuses to serve

   Synonymsdraft dodger

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Questions about draft evader

What does draft evader mean?

draft evader means "someone who is drafted and illegally refuses to serve".

What is another word for draft evader?

Close synonyms include draft dodger. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is draft evader a common word?

draft evader 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.