OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 29054

missing in action

/ˈmɪsɪŋ ɪn ˈækʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desaparecido en acción
The designation for a member of an organization (usually military) with whom contact is lost and whose whereabouts are not known, but whose death is not confirmed.
Missing in action are those who have been dropped from the muster-roll as missing in action, and have subsequently joined again. [...] If the missing in action, or desertion, and t…
Private Louis R. Ziegra of this place [Deep River, Connecticut], formerly a bookkeeper at the Pratt-Reid Player Action Co., who is announced in dispatches from the War Department a…
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