reservation

Meanings

Plural: reservations

Noun

• a district that is reserved for particular purpose
• a statement that limits or restricts some claim
  • "he recommended her without any reservations"
• an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly
• the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)
• the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance
• something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)
• the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion
• 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.
• The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
• The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
• The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
• Something that is withheld or kept back.
• A limiting qualification regarding certainty; a doubt.
• A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
• An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
• The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.
• 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).
• 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.

Synonyms

arriere pensee, booking, median, median strip, mental reservation, qualification, res, reserve, rez

Related Words

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