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Meaning of brown job | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A member of the army.

UK, dated

Examples

“Air force personnel used to distinguish airmen (blue jobs or boys in blue) from army personnel (brown jobs or boys in brown).”

“[…] The Navy and the R.A.F. combine and throw the Army out of the window. It passes the time...' But that evening, it wasn't the Brown Jobs that were thrown out.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

brown joke brown jolly brown king crab brown kingfisher brown lacewing brown leaf