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单词 army of reserve
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army (also body, corps) of reserve
a. In troops of reserve (also brigades of reserve, etc.): troops or parts of a military force which are withheld from action to serve as later reinforcements, or as cover. Similarly army (also body, corps) of reserve, etc. Cf. corps de réserve at corps n.1 2b.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > special reserves or Territorial Army
army of reserve1607
reserves1826
Special Reserve1907
Territorial Army1907
home guard1908
T.A.1924
TAVR1967
1607 E. Grimeston tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. l. 10 The Combat growes hot, being very equal in valour and courage, but not in force, by reason of the troupes of reserue, which Edward kept for the last charge.
1632 tr. Swedish Discipline iii. 23 The King of Sweden..goes..to visite his three Brigades of Reserue in the Reere of the maine Battayle.
1658 T. Tanner Entrance of Mazzarini Continued 51 The whole Army (except a Body of Reserve commanded by the Baron de Sirot..) made a great Front.
1698 tr. Tacitus Hist. i, in tr. Ann. & Hist. III. 74 Auxiliaries of Germans..out of whom Vitellius..Compos'd also another Army of reserve to sustain the whole.
1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 107 That we may always have some [trees] as 'twere in a Body of Reserve for that purpose.
1758 Orderly Bk. 24 Nov. in G. Washington Papers (1988) VI. 156 The 4th Part of each Brigade is to Compose a Corp of reserve to their respective Brigades.
1803 W. Scott Let. 27 Aug. (1932) I. 196 Armies of Reserve, and Militia, and Pikemen, and Sharpshooters, who are to descend from Ettrick Forest to the confusion of all invaders.
1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 204/2 The Army of Reserve is a force incorporated under the act 22 and 23 Vict. c. 42 (1859).
1894 L. Drake in C. F. Horne Great Men & Famous Women II. 225 Here, in command of a body of reserve, he attacked the walls, after the first parties had been repulsed.
1901 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 1 328 This country should have a corps of reserve among nurses numbering one thousand members.
1939 A. H. Imlah Ld. Ellenborough iv. 90 There were no adequate armies of reserve concentrated south of the Bolan and Khaibar passes.
1998 M. A. Wells Searching for Red Eagle iii. xii. 219 Claiborne..leads the center column of the Third Regiment of U.S. Infantry, with Lester's Guards and Wells' Dragoons acting as a corps of reserve.
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