Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A member of a military reserve.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A soldier who belongs to the reserve.
Wiktionary
- n. A soldier who is assigned as reserved; after training, no longer in full active duty.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a member of a military reserve
Examples
“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.”
“As we are about to hear from an army reservist, that is not what they should be doing.”
“Again, as I say, they could face the death penalty, that the reservist is a 26-year-old man who was, lived in Israel.”
“This must take place within the framework of the law and becoming a reservist is a concrete way of getting involved.”
“One of the Captin's I fly with as a reservist is the Wal-Mart eye doctor.”
“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.”
“B. Thomas Marking is a "reservist" emergency responder for the Federal Emergency Management”
“Warren Gross, a 56-year-old Army reservist and optometrist with a practice in Miami Beach.”
“Tampa police: Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist leftover”
This, sports fans, strikes me as unmitigated nonsense « Dating Jesus
“Fabian, who was still an army reservist and who was weeks away from being deployed to Afghanistan, stole the hand grenade from a firing range during weapons training.”
The Guardian: Ex-soldier found guilty of trying to murder wife with grenade
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