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What does desertion mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of deserting.
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Officers and men from units which had been forced to abandon their positions were shot for desertion.
She plans to crash the party and reveal that she is Godfrey's wife so that she can avenge Godfrey's desertion.
Over 300, he said, some for desertion, some for cowardice, and two for falling asleep at their posts.
The tedium of dredging and sounding very likely accounted for the high attrition of ship's personnel by desertion.
The desertion hit us hard, largely because we already knew how difficult the situation was in Toronto's two downtown Chinatowns before SARS hit.
We confined our trapping to the late stages of incubation to minimize nest desertion due to trapping procedures.

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