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reserve /ri-zûrvˈ/ transitive verb- To hold back
- To save up, esp for a future occasion or special purpose
- To keep, retain
- To preserve
- To spare
- To set apart
- To book, engage
noun- The keeping of something reserved
- State of being reserved
- That which is reserved
- A reservation
- A reserved store or stock
- A reserve price
- A tract of land reserved for a special purpose
- A public park (Aust and NZ)
- In Canada, a Native American reservation
- A substitute kept in readiness (sport)
- (esp in pl) a military force kept out of action until occasion serves
- (esp in pl) a force not usu serving but liable to be called up when required
- (often pl) resources of physical or spiritual nature available in abnormal circumstances
- Part of assets kept readily available for ordinary demands
- (usu in pl) an unexploited quantity of a mineral (esp oil, gas or coal) calculated to exist in a given area
- (in pl) amounts of gold and foreign currencies held by a country
- (in pl) elements of equity other than the face value of share capital (accounting)
- Artistic restraint
- Restrained manner
- Reticence
- Aloofness
- A secret information withheld (archaic)
- Limitation, restriction
- A mental reservation
adjective- Kept in reserve
- Of a reserve or reserves
ORIGIN: OFr reserver, from L reservāre, from re- back, and servāre to save reservˈable adjective reservāˈtion /rez-/ noun - The act of reserving or keeping back, or keeping for oneself
- An expressed or tacit proviso, limiting condition, or exception
- Something withheld
- A tract of public land reserved for some special purpose, eg for preserving game, forest, etc
- In the USA, an area of land set aside by treaty for the use of a particular Native American tribe or group
- The Pope's retention to himself of the right to nominate to a benefice
- A limitation
- The booking of a seat, room, passage, etc
- A booked seat, room, etc
- The strip of grass, etc between the two roads of a dual carriageway
- A clause of a deed by which a person reserves for himself or herself a right, interest, etc in a property he or she is granting, as that of ordinary rent (law)
- The act of reserving such a right or interest (law)
reservatory /ri-zûrvˈə-tər-i/ noun (obsolete) - A receptacle
- A reservoir
reservedˈ adjective - Reticent
- Uncommunicative
- Aloof in manner
- Booked
- Having the original colour of the surface or background (ceramics)
reservˈedly adverb reservedness /ri-zûrvdˈnis/ noun reservˈer noun reservˈist noun A member of a reserve force reserve bank noun - Any of the US Federal Reserve banks
- A central bank holding reserves for other banks (esp Aust and NZ)
reserve currency noun Any stable and easily convertible foreign currency that a government holds in its foreign exchange reserves and uses to finance a large part of its international trade reserved list noun A list of retired officers in the armed services who may be recalled for active service in the event of war reserved occupation noun Employment of national importance that exempts from service in the armed forces reserved word noun (computing) A word with a specific use in a programming language that cannot therefore be used as an identifier, etc reserve grade noun (Aust) A sporting competition of the second division or rank reserve price noun The minimum price acceptable to the vendor of an article for sale or auction reserve ratio noun (economics) The government-imposed minimum ratio that must be maintained by a bank between its total deposit liabilities and the cash reserves it retains with the central bank judgement reserved see under judge mental reservation A reservation made mentally but not openly expressed reservation of the sacrament The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick without reserve - Frankly, not holding back any information
- Fully, without reservation
- Without restrictions or stipulations regarding sale
- Without a reserve price
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