honorable discharge

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   a discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record

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Questions about honorable discharge

What does honorable discharge mean?

honorable discharge means "a discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record".

Is honorable discharge a common word?

honorable 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.