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reservists

reservists is the plural of reservist.

Meaning of reservist

Noun

reservist (plural reservists)

  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.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 124
    Synonyms:
    weekend warrior

Questions about reservists

What is reservists the plural of?
Reservists is the plural of reservist.

Words near reservists in the dictionary

  1. reservices
  2. reservicing
  3. reserving
  4. reservism
  5. reservist
  6. reservists
  7. reservoir
  8. reservoir computer
  9. reservoir computers
  10. reservoir computing
  11. reservoir control

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