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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservist/#m1)

2) A member of a reserve force. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservist/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservist/#x1)
- The government called up thousands of reservists. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservist/#x2)
- Reservists train on some weekends and in the summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservist/#x3)
- Ukraine called up reservists to defend the country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservist/#x4)
- The reservists helped with sandbags during the floods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservist/#x5)
- Dad became a navy reservist after leaving the full-time navy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservist/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/27-israel-and-gaza-at-school-and-online/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reservist» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reservist/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.