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
- With one reservation on my part. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You will understand directly why I speak with that reservation. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- After the breaking out of the war there was a regiment of volunteer soldiers quartered at Fort Gratiot, the reservation extending to the boundary line of our house. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The ten acres of the reservation offered an excellent opportunity for truck-farming, and the versatile head of the family could not avoid trying his luck in this branch of work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I have now recalled all that I think it needful to recall here, of this term of absence--with one reservation. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Nor can we tell much more of the swift spread of Spanish adventurers over the rest of America, outside the Portuguese reservation of Brazil. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Granted that a benefactor's wishes may constitute a claim; there must always be a reservation as to the quality of those wishes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Do I look as if I suppressed anything, meant anything but what I said, had any reservation at all, no matter what? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He also insisted upon a future life, the fear of hell for the negligent and evil, and the reservation of paradise for the believer in the One God. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Stopping behind Shirley's chair, he bent over her, and said, in a low, emphatic voice, I promise all you ask--without comment, without reservation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I search my breast, and I commit its secrets, if I know them, without any reservation to this paper. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Again and again he denounced private riches and the reservation of any private life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I wish to avoid reservation or concealment, and I fully acknowledge that. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I had scarcely thought it a reservation a few hours ago, but now that it was gone I felt as if I understood its nature better. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I could not live and have one reservation, knowing what I know now. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- By-and-by she said: 'Will you tell me what you refer to about reservations in his manner of speaking of me? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The Indians of the United States are now largely gathered into reservations and their former dress, arms and habits are being gradually changed for those of the whites. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was dragging out all the little private reservations they had made from social service into the light of a universal religious life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mental reservations and artful mysteries grew out of these things. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It had reservations in it which she did not understand; but then she was weak, dizzy, and tired. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Service, however (with a few limited reservations, genteel but not profitable), they may not do, being of the Dedlock dignity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But he always speaks of you with regard and esteem, though now I understand certain reservations in his manner. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He held himself to be, with some private scholarly reservations, a believing Christian, as to estimates of the present and hopes of the future. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This was my opinion, and with certain minor reservations, Miss Halcombe's opinion also. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Checker: Ronnie