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Purchase of commissions in the British Army
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Proper noun
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purchase
system
(
UK
,
historical
)
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
.
