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reservist

/ri-zur-vist/US // rɪˈzɜr vɪst //UK // (rɪˈzɜːvɪst) //

预备役军人,预备役人员,后备军人,后备役军人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who belongs to a reserve military force of a country.

Examples

  • Dozens of military veterans are among the hundreds charged in the riots, and several others are reservists or National Guard members.

  • According to the friend, Brinsley rang his ex-girlfriend, an Air Force reservist named Shaneka Thompson, to no avail.

  • The Marine reservist then went after his ex-wife, Nicole Hill Stone.

  • Recruits acquire Kenyan Police Reservist status once they have completed the course, which allows them to carry arms.

  • Twelve people were killed at the Navy yard by ex–Navy reservist Aaron Alexis.

  • Then–lieutenant colonel Rick Welch, now a full-bird colonel, was a reservist and district attorney from Morgan County, Ohio.

  • Sitting in the window, one could trace the Reservist's progress from his entrance at the gate to his disappearance into quarters.

  • For the sake of the peace of Europe we had, up till then, deliberately refrained from calling up a single reservist.

  • A Reservist is a dug-out, a recruit a rookie, and a veteran an old sweat.

  • On the outbreak of war he was recalled to the Colours as a reservist, and took part in many famous engagements.

  • He was evidently a reservist, a feeble little man of about forty, with three days' growth on his chin.