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What is a non-combatant?

What is a non-combatant? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A non-fighting member of the armed forces.
  2. A civilian in time of conflict.
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But Broyles is too good here, and admits that women too feel the pull of war by being exposed to it, even as a non-combatant.
It was useless for his attendant friends to assert that he had been a non-combatant.
Airwars has found at least 459 non-combatant deaths, including 100 children, from 52 airstrikes.
At the war's end, non-combatant fatalities would increase to more than a thousand.
Some groups, like the Christadelphians, confined themselves to a specific objection to bearing arms, and agreed to accept non-combatant service.
The purpose of military action must be to relieve or avert gross physical harm to non-combatant civilians.

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