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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024re-serve (rē sûrv′),USA pronunciation v.t., v.i., -served, -serv•ing. - to serve again.
re•serve (ri zûrv′),USA pronunciation v., -served, -serv•ing, n., adj. v.t. - to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
- to retain or secure by express stipulation.
- to set apart for a particular use, purpose, service, etc.:ground reserved for gardening.
- to keep for oneself.
- to retain (the original color) of a surface, as on a painted ceramic piece.
- Religionto save or set aside (a portion of the Eucharistic elements) to be administered, as to the sick, outside of the Mass or communion service.
n. - Business[Finance.]
- Businesscash, or assets readily convertible into cash, held aside, as by a corporation, bank, state or national government, etc., to meet expected or unexpected demands.
- uninvested cash held to comply with legal requirements.
- something kept or stored for use or need;
stock:a reserve of food. - a resource not normally called upon but available if needed.
- a tract of public land set apart for a special purpose:a forest reserve.
- an act of reserving;
reservation, exception, or qualification:I will do what you ask, but with one reserve. - Military
- a fraction of a military force held in readiness to sustain the attack or defense made by the rest of the force.
- the part of a country's fighting force not in active service.
- reserves, the enrolled but not regular components of the U.S. Army.
- formality and self-restraint in manner and relationship;
avoidance of familiarity or intimacy with others:to conduct oneself with reserve. - reticence or silence.
- in reserve, put aside or withheld for a future need;
reserved:money in reserve. - without reserve:
- without restraint;
frankly;
freely. - (of articles at auction) without limitation as to the terms of sale, esp. with no stipulated minimum price.
adj. - kept in reserve;
forming a reserve:a reserve fund; a reserve supply. - Animal Husbandryof or pertaining to the animal awarded second place in livestock shows:the reserve champion steer.
- Latin reservāre to keep back, retain, equivalent. to re- re- + servāre to save
- Middle French reserver
- Middle English reserven (verb, verbal) 1325–75
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged husband, hold, store. See keep.
- 8.See corresponding entry in Unabridged supply.
- 14.See corresponding entry in Unabridged taciturnity, constraint, coldness.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged squander.
- 13, 14.See corresponding entry in Unabridged warmth.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: re-serve /riːˈsɜːv/ vb - (transitive) to serve again
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