Reservation

[rezə'veɪʃ(ə)n] or [,rɛzɚ'veʃən]

Definition

(noun.) the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion.

(noun.) something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.).

(noun.) a statement that limits or restricts some claim; 'he recommended her without any reservations'.

(noun.) the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance.

(noun.) a district that is reserved for particular purpose.

Inputed by Lewis--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.

(n.) Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.

(n.) A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.

(n.) The state of being reserved, or kept in store.

(n.) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.

(n.) A proviso.

(n.) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.

(n.) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.

Editor: Terence

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Concealment, suppression.[2]. Reserve, something reserved.[3]. Salvo, proviso.

Inputed by Artie

Examples

Checker: Ronnie

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