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reservist

noun

Etymology

From reserve + -ist.

  1. derived from reservō — “to reserve, retain”
  2. derived from reserver
  3. suffixed as reservist — “reserve + ist”

Definitions

  1. A soldier who is assigned as reserved

    A soldier who is assigned as reserved: after training, no longer on full active duty.

    • One of the men there, a reservist he said he was, told my brother he had seen the heliograph flickering in the west.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA