Meaning of reserve | Babel Free

Definitions

1. reservation, booking (arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance)
2. A city in Kansas.
3. A restriction.
   countable, uncountable
4. The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
   countable, uncountable
5. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
   countable, uncountable
6. a reserve, reservation, preserve, sanctuary (area protected for a specific reason)
7. A census-designated place in Louisiana.
8. That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
   countable, uncountable
9. reserve (for game or hunting)
10. A census-designated place in Montana.
11. A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
    countable, uncountable
12. reserve (armed forces in non-active duty)
13. A village, the county seat of Catron County, New Mexico.
14. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
    countable, uncountable
15. reserve (part of the team that doesn't start)
16. A census-designated place in Wisconsin.
17. A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group: Indian reserve.
    Canada, countable, uncountable
18. A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
    countable, uncountable
19. Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
    countable, uncountable
20. A reserve price in an auction.
    countable, uncountable
21. Wine held back and aged before being sold.
    countable, uncountable
22. Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
    countable, uncountable
23. Something initially kept back for later use in recreation.
    countable, uncountable
24. A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
    countable, uncountable
25. A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
    countable, uncountable
26. In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
    countable, uncountable
27. A resist.
    countable, uncountable
28. A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The book is on reserve.”

“I accept your view with one reserve.”

“The tone was set at Trump’s Inauguration. Tech moguls streamed into Washington; some sat behind the President during his Inaugural Address, a signal of the power they would wield. Over the next 11 months, they would use their enormous cash reserves, cultural power, and momentum to push their products into homes across the world.”

“New oil reserves are continuously being discovered, but not as fast as the existing ones are running out.”

“If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.”

“the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio was originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut.”

“the Clergy Reserves in Canada are for the support of the clergy.”

“no reserves [the military force is throwing everything it has at the front]”

“no reserve [the lot(s) will be sold no matter how low the bids are]”

“reserve not met [the lot(s) will not be sold because the highest bid was too low to be acceptable]”

“Each is decorated with a simple disk in reserve and a band in reserve adorned with white dots.”

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