purple
adj.— «It must accept the idea that a cost of jointness is the assignment of personnel to action-officer status who will do “purple work” that may have no direct connection to day-to-day Coast Guard business.» —“Coast Guard is joint” by Alexander J. Hindle Jr. United States Naval Institute: Proceedings Dec. 1, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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