Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a military reserve.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A soldier who belongs to the reserve.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A soldier who is assigned as
reserved ; after training, no longer in fullactive duty .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of a military reserve
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Examples
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A Navy reservist from the Philadelphia area, Lenny had a background in the computer industry and had done a previous tour at Guantánamo Bay’s Camp X‑Ray.
The Ploy 2007
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A Navy reservist from the Philadelphia area, Lenny had a background in the computer industry and had done a previous tour at Guantánamo Bay’s Camp X‑Ray.
The Ploy 2007
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As we are about to hear from an army reservist, that is not what they should be doing.
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Again, as I say, they could face the death penalty, that the reservist is a 26-year-old man who was, lived in Israel.
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This must take place within the framework of the law and becoming a reservist is a concrete way of getting involved.
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This must take place within the framework of the law and becoming a reservist is a concrete way of getting involved.
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One of the Captin's I fly with as a reservist is the Wal-Mart eye doctor.
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But here's a pet peeve from the media coverage, where Corporal Megeney is referred to repeatedly as a "reservist". maybe more than once your humble e-scribbler has let that word slip from his own lips or typed them onto a page somewhere.
A soldier, once and always Ed Hollett 2007
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B. Thomas Marking is a "reservist" emergency responder for the Federal Emergency Management
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Warren Gross, a 56-year-old Army reservist and optometrist with a practice in Miami Beach.
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