English Explanatory Dictionary

purchase system

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The practice, abolished in 1871, of paying money to be made an officer in the cavalry and infantry regiments of the English and later British Army, without having to wait for promotion.

Word forms

purchase system
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