home reserve

1. 1.

   United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either

   SynonymsNational Guard

   Broaderterritorial

   NarrowerAir National GuardArmy National Guard

   PartsNational Guard Bureau

   military

Questions about home reserve

What does home reserve mean?

home reserve means "United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either".

What is another word for home reserve?

Close synonyms include National Guard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is home reserve a common word?

home reserve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.