reservation

[Res`er*va·tion]

A reservation is something set aside, like a table at a restaurant or land for Native Americans.

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

Noun
the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion

Noun
the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made the booking"

Noun
an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly

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"

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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


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.

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The state of being reserved, or kept in store.

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

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A proviso.

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

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


Reservation

Res`er*va"tion (r?z`?r-v?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r'82servation, LL. reservatio. See Reserve.] 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith.
With reservation of an hundred knights.
Make some reservation of your wrongs.
2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. Dryden. 3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. [U.S.] 4. The state of being reserved, or kept in store. Shak. 5. (Law) (a) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before. (b) A proviso. Kent. &hand; This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded. 6. (Eccl.) (a) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick. (b) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices. Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.

Reservative

Re*serv"a*tive (r?-z?rv"?-t?v), a. Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.

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

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Usage Examples

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

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Other Usage Examples

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

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