reservist
nounEtymology From reserve + -ist.
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
- Related terms
- reservism