Reservist

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    a member of a military reserve wordnet

Etymology

From reserve + -ist.

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