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TERRITORIAL RESERVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does territorial reserve mean?
• TERRITORIAL RESERVE (noun)
The noun TERRITORIAL RESERVE has 1 sense:
1. a territorial military unit
Familiarity information: TERRITORIAL RESERVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A territorial military unit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
territorial; territorial reserve
Hypernyms ("territorial reserve" is a kind of...):
guard (a military unit serving to protect some place or person)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "territorial reserve"):
home reserve; National Guard (United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either)
Territorial Army (British unit of nonprofessional soldiers organized for the defense of Great Britain)
Holonyms ("territorial reserve" is a part of...):
militia; reserves (civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army)
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