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Definition of Draft evader
1. Noun. Someone who is drafted and illegally refuses to serve.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Draft Evader
Literary usage of Draft evader
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Web by Emerson Hough (1919)
"There was a draft evader in Boston by the name of R , who did not file his ...
The draft evader then evaded yet more, and was not found for several days ..."
2. Sketches of Butte: (from Vigilante Days to Prohibition) by George Wesley Davis (1921)
"The draft-evader does not know the meaning of the word shame any more than does
the profiteer. If he has a slight feeling of a world glorified by truth and ..."
3. Union Labor in Peace and War by Walter V. Woehlke (1918)
"... as in British Columbia, where certain unions struck to bring about the release
of a union man, charged with being a draft evader. ..."