reservist

«reservist» in Mova's school dictionary: A person who has a normal job but has trained as a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a reservist, reservists)

meaning for a pupil

1) A person who has a normal job but has trained as a soldier, sailor or airman and can be called up to serve in the armed forces when needed. tree →

2) A member of a reserve force. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, reservists work as teachers, builders or nurses, then train some weekends; in an emergency they may be called up. In the news and history lessons, reservists are called up in wartime or after floods and disasters. Phrases: army reservist, call up reservists, a reservist soldier.

examples

• My aunt is a nurse and an army reservist. tree →
• The government called up thousands of reservists. tree →
• Reservists train on some weekends and in the summer. tree →
• Ukraine called up reservists to defend the country. tree →
• The reservists helped with sandbags during the floods. tree →
• Dad became a navy reservist after leaving the full-time navy. tree →

note

Countable: a reservist, reservists. From "reserve" (kept ready for later). In the UK the Army Reserve used to be called the Territorial Army.

In the corpora

• In Israel most adults serve in the army, and many are called back as reservists in wartime.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «reservist» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.