weekend warrior

1. 1.

   a homeowner who acts as a contractor and tries to do major improvement projects on weekends (often without understanding the scope of the work to be done)

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2. 2.

   a reservist who fulfills the military obligation on weekends

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   military

Questions about weekend warrior

What does weekend warrior mean?

weekend warrior means "a homeowner who acts as a contractor and tries to do major improvement projects on weekends (often without understanding the scope of the work to be done)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is weekend warrior a common word?

weekend warrior 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.