military reserve

1. 1.

   armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency

   Synonymsreserve

   Broadermilitary

   military

Questions about military reserve

What does military reserve mean?

military reserve means "armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency".

What is another word for military reserve?

Close synonyms include reserve. 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 military reserve a common word?

military 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.