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What does hors de combat mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hors de combat? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (literary) out of action; disabled; no longer able to fight
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They are hors de combat, literally, out of combat, until such time as they take a hostile action such as attempting to escape.
A person who is recognized or who, in the circumstances, should be recognized to be hors de combat shall not be made the object of attack.
He is not hors de combat on the plain, or one could see him even ten miles off.
Attacks against civilian population and hors de combat are also included in this definition.
Taff Vale judge-made law renders the labor union hors de combat at a stroke.
The Geneva Conventions impose on those that become hors de combat the obligation to cease all combatant actions.

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