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noun
The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Something that is withheld or kept back.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A limiting qualification regarding certainty or risk; a doubt or concern.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, often, uncountable
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noun
A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people, such as the Hopi Reservation or the Navajo Nation's territory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: reserve, res, rez, rezzy
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noun
An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
Synonyms: central reservation, median, median strip
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noun
The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, countable, uncountable
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noun
A power of an overseeing authority to suspend legislation in the jurisdiction being overseen pending the approval of a higher authority. Such as a provincial/state governor reserving a bill passed by the state/provincial legislature from assent, pending approval of the federal government; or a federal bill passed by federal parliament being reserved by the viceroy pending approval by the crown.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, law, politics
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noun
the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: preservation, saving
noun
the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: booking
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Broader terms: employment, engagement
noun
an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mental reservation, arriere pensee
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness
noun
something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: prearrangement
Narrower terms: upgrade
noun
a statement that limits or restricts some claim
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: qualification
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: statement
Narrower terms: fine print, small print, weasel word
noun
the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: agreement, understanding
noun
a district that is reserved for particular purpose
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: reserve
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Broader terms: administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
Narrower terms: Indian reservation, preserve
History
From Middle French reservation, equivalent to reserve + -ation.
Across languages
141 source translations are retained for this English entry.
