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 

• TERRITORIAL RESERVE (noun)

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)