Meaning of semiuniform | Babel Free

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An outfit that is somewhat uniform-like but is not wholly a true uniform.

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“This does not mean that Trotzky is to be considered as an insignificant factor in the Bolshevik movement. Originally useful as a journalist and a pamphleteer, he has become to-day the Bolshevik man of action, the Bolshevik imperialist. The Red Army, such as it is, is largely his creation. Trotzky, the orator, is "a powerful demagog, hissing out his words with a degree of hate that is not without effect," says the Times writer, and continues: "He is apt, however, to lose his temper in the face of opposition and to take refuge in mere abuse. Rumor has many unkind things to say about his private life and his commercial honesty. They may be untrue, but they give an illustration of the different estimate of the characters of Lenine and Trotzky which exists in the mind of the Russian people. Always neatly drest and with carefully manicured nails, he is the best-drest of all the Bolshevik commissaries. Vain and easily susceptible to flattery, he is by no means averse to publicity, and is, or at any rate was, far more accessible to foreign journalists than his more famous colleague. To-day he has imitated Kerensky's fashion of appearing at Red Army concerts or parades in a semiuniform of khaki, and even his own friends have taunted him with Napoleonic designs."”

“[…] 50 or more boys, who meet weekly for military drill. The boys wear a semi-uniform, and are provided with dummy rifles. In 1924 the total strength in the United Kingdom was 1,329 companies, with 67,552 members. There is now a junior organization for boys from 9 to 13—the Boy Reserves.”

“Bonn institutions assist the diversionist center, for example, in security matters. Even those gentlemen in semiuniforms who spend their days with holstered pistols as guards at the "Free Europe" station have been recommended to the CIA by Bonn authorities. They are all "reliable" citizens of the FRG who spy on the Polish, Czech, and other foreign collaborators of the transmitter under direct orders from the Americans.”

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