reserve officer


noun
  1. a noncareer commissioned officer in a military reserve unit who has served on active duty and who may be recalled to active service during an emergency.

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How to use reserve officer in a sentence

  • She was the widow of a reserve officer who had fallen in Galicia.

    The Iron Ration | George Abel Schreiner
  • I am a reserve officer in the German army, and I was determined to get back to fight.

    Germany in War Time | Mary Ethel McAuley
  • When the Dove of Peace does come, it will be a real bird of good omen, not a German reserve officer masquerading as one.

    Raemaekers' Cartoons | Louis Raemaekers