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Noun

S: (n) goldbrick (a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort)

direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

S: (n) soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army) "the soldiers stood at attention"

S: (n) Gurkha (a member of the Nepalese force that has been part of the British army for 200 years; known for fierceness in combat)
S: (n) Anzac (a soldier in the Australian and New Zealand army corps during World War I)
S: (n) cannon fodder, fodder, fresh fish (soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire)
S: (n) cavalryman, trooper (a soldier mounted on horseback) "a cavalryman always takes good care of his mount"
S: (n) cavalryman, trooper (a soldier in a motorized army unit)
S: (n) color bearer, standard-bearer (the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle)
S: (n) Confederate soldier (a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War)
S: (n) redcoat, lobsterback (British soldier; so-called because of his red coat (especially during the American Revolution))
S: (n) flanker (a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation)
S: (n) goldbrick (a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort)
S: (n) Green Beret (a soldier who is a member of the United States Army Special Forces)
S: (n) guardsman (a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards')
S: (n) Highlander (a soldier in a Scottish regiment from the Highlands)
S: (n) infantryman, marcher, foot soldier, footslogger (fights on foot with small arms)
S: (n) Janissary (a Turkish soldier)
S: (n) jawan ((India) a private soldier or male constable)
S: (n) legionnaire, legionary (a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion))
S: (n) man-at-arms (a heavily armed and mounted soldier in medieval times)
S: (n) marine (a soldier who serves both on shipboard and on land)
S: (n) militiaman (a member of the militia; serves only during emergencies)
S: (n) orderly (a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer) "the orderly laid out the general's uniform"
S: (n) paratrooper, para (a soldier in the paratroops)
S: (n) peacekeeper (a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area)
S: (n) pistoleer (someone armed with a pistol (especially a soldier so armed))
S: (n) poilu (a French soldier (especially in World War I))
S: (n) point man (a soldier who goes ahead of a patrol)
S: (n) ranker (an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces)
S: (n) regular (a soldier in the regular army)
S: (n) reservist (a member of a military reserve)
S: (n) rifleman (a soldier whose weapon is a rifle)
S: (n) Section Eight (a soldier who received a Section Eight discharge as unfit for military service)
S: (n) tanker, tank driver (a soldier who drives a tank)
S: (n) territorial (nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit)
S: (n) Unknown Soldier (an unidentified soldier whose body is honored as a memorial)
S: (n) Wac (a member of the Women's Army Corps)
S: (n) Uriah ((Old Testament) the husband of Bathsheba and a soldier who was sent to die in battle so that king David could marry his wife (circa 10th century BC))
S: (n) Allen, Ethan Allen (a soldier of the American Revolution whose troops helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British (1738-1789))
S: (n) Bayard, Seigneur de Bayard, Chevalier de Bayard, Pierre Terrail, Pierre de Terrail (French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524))
S: (n) Borgia, Cesare Borgia (Italian cardinal and military leader; model for Machiavelli's prince (1475-1507))
S: (n) Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac (a French soldier and dramatist remembered chiefly for fighting many duels (often over the size of his nose); was immortalized in 1897 in a play by Edmond Rostand (1619-1655))
S: (n) Higginson, Thomas Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson (United States writer and soldier who led the first Black regiment in the Union Army (1823-1911))
S: (n) Kosciusko, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Kosciuszko, Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko (Polish patriot and soldier who fought with Americans in the American Revolution (1746-1817))
S: (n) Lafayette, La Fayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834))
S: (n) Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia (Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935))
S: (n) Lee, Henry Lee, Lighthorse Harry Lee (soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818))
S: (n) Mohammed Ali, Mehemet Ali, Muhammad Ali (Albanian soldier in the service of Turkey who was made viceroy of Egypt and took control away from the Ottoman Empire and established Egypt as a modern state (1769-1849))
S: (n) Morgan, Daniel Morgan (soldier in the American Revolution who defeated the British in the battle of Cowpens, South Carolina (1736-1802))
S: (n) Percy, Sir Henry Percy, Hotspur, Harry Hotspur (English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403))
S: (n) Peron, Juan Domingo Peron (Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974))
S: (n) Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts (South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950))
S: (n) Tancred (Norman leader in the First Crusade who played an important role in the capture of Jerusalem (1078-1112))

S: (n) slacker, shirker (a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime))

S: (n) goldbrick (a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort)
S: (n) malingerer, skulker, shammer (someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity)
S: (n) scrimshanker (a shirker)

S: (n) goldbrick, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, no-account, good-for-naught (an idle worthless person)
S: (n) goldbrick (a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not)
S: (n) goldbrick (anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless)

Verb

S: (v) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con (deprive of by deceit) "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her";

direct troponym / full troponym

S: (v) short-change, short (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)

direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
derivationally related form

W: (n) victimization [Related to: victimize] (an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)) "capitalistic exploitation of the working class"; "paying Blacks less and charging them more is a form of victimization"
W: (n) swindler [Related to: swindle] (a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud)
W: (n) swindle [Related to: swindle] (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme) "that book is a fraud"
W: (n) bunco [Related to: bunco] (a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property)
W: (n) defrauder [Related to: defraud] (a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud)
W: (n) scammer [Related to: scam] (a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud)
W: (n) scam [Related to: scam] (a fraudulent business scheme)
W: (n) con [Related to: con] (a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property)

sentence frame

S: (v) fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick (avoid (one's assigned duties)) "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"