reservist Definition
re·serv·ist (ri zʉr′vist)
noun
a member of a country's military reserves
reservist Usage Examples
Possessives
- award: The reservist's award is paid in arrears at the end of each calendar month.
- absence: Employers are also entitled to various forms of financial support during a Reservist's absence.
- employer: The Department also is pursuing initiatives to mitigate the concerns of reservists ' civilian employers and for increased support of Reserve component families.
Converse of object
- mobilize: They do not include the Home Service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment or mobilized reservists.
- employ: The more your employer knows about the implications of employing a Reservist, the more supportive they are likely to be.
- call: One reports the posting in the capital of notices calling reservists to the colors.
- deploy: Once the psyops missions are well established, members of the 4th POG often are replaced by deployed reservists.
- have: The MOD will send you a letter explaining that you have a Reservist working for you.
- train: The Schlesinger report was cited for the conclusion that the perpetrators were merely a group of sadistic, poorly trained Reservists.
Adjective modifier
- part-time: We believe our defense forces should comprise fully professional volunteer armed forces, supplemented by volunteer part-time reservists.
- regular: Dragging TA and regular reservists away from their families and sending them to the desert to fight an immoral and illegal war is outrageous.
- military: All the local suspects were bona fide Singaporean citizens, six were military reservists.
- former: Later the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) killed a former police reservist, Steven Craig, in the same area.
- many: The barracks were full of fresh recruits, also many reservists were arriving every day.
Modifies a noun
employe: Reservist employees are unlikely to have many special requirements or to generate additional paperwork.
Noun used with modifier
- volunteer: Most volunteer Reservists are committed to about 30 days ' training a year.
- police: On the outbreak of war in 1939 all Police reservists were granted a three month stay of Army call up.
- RUC: As a former RUC Reservist, Billy has campaigned and will continue to campaign for effective policing and sentencing powers.
Browse dictionary entries near reservist
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