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Definition of Military reserve
1. Noun. Armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency.
Generic synonyms: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Member holonyms: Reservist
Derivative terms: Reservist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Military Reserve
Literary usage of Military reserve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"Congress could never have intended that this contract should interfere with the
military reserve. That reserve was of lands lying above the Little Miami. ..."
2. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1869)
"... William H. Russell, and Thomas Ewing, junior, and their assigns, a lease of
twenty acres of land in the military reserve at Fort Leavenworth, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1903)
"Congress could never have intended that this contract should interfere with the
military reserve. That reserve was of lands lying above the Little Miami ..."
4. The Ontario Reports: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the Queen's by Ontario High Court of Justice, Ontario, High Court of Justice (1893)
"... CJ]: " Does not say it was a military reserve; understood it was a military
reserve; supposed it was reserved for a road, not fortification. ..."
5. Laws of the United States of a Local Or Temporary Character: And Exhibiting by United States (1880)
"... of the south line of the military west line of the said Missouri River, thence
westwardly iu a line parallel to the south line of the military reserve,, ..."
6. The History of Educational Legislation in Ohio from 1803 to 1850 by Edward Alanson Miller (1920)
"It was not in the power of Congress to grant Section 16 in such tracts as the
Western Reserve, the Virginia military reserve, and the United States Military ..."
7. Governor and Judges Journal: Proceedings of the Land Board of Detroit by Michigan Commission on land titles, M. Agnes Burton, Clarence Monroe Burton (1915)
"See Hull's plan of Detroit in 1809, showing military reserve. 11. Robert Smart
was a jolly Scotch bachelor who came to Detroit at an early date. ..."
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