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rif
verb
to separate someone from military service or employment US
From the initialism for “reduction in force”.- When he didn’t make brigadier, he was “rifted” (for “reduction in force”: the army’s way of controlling its reserve-officer-corps population). — Robert Mason, Chickenhawk, p. 195, 1983
- For a while, he had been worried about being Riffed, thrown out before he had his twenty in, not even getting to retire. — Walter Boyne and Steven Thompson, The Wild Blue, p. 426, 1986
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