Reservation
Definition of Reservation
Res`er`va´tion Pronunciation: r?z`?r-v?´sh?n | n. | 1. | The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. | | 2. | Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. | | 3. | A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. | | 4. | The state of being reserved, or kept in store. | | 5. | (Law) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before. | | 6. | (Eccl.) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick. | | 7. | an agreement to have some space, service or other acommodation, as at a hotel, a restaurant, or on a public transport system, held for one's future use; also, the record or receipt for such an agreement, or the contractual obligation to retain that accommodation; as, a hotel reservation; a reservation on a flight to Dallas; to book a reservation at the Ritz. |
Related Words
Indian reservation, allowance, appointment, archives, area, arrangement, bank, bespeaking, bird sanctuary, booking, briefing, cession, circumscription, concession, condition, demur, demurral, demurrer, employment, engagement, exception, exemption, extenuating circumstances, forest preserve, game reserve, grain of salt, grant, hedge, hedging, hesitancy, hesitation, hiring, holding back, library, mental reservation, modification, museum, national forest, national park, paradise, park, plot, preengagement, preserve, provision, proviso, qualification, qualm, region, reluctance, reserve, retainment, reticence, salvo, sanctuary, scruple, section, special case, special treatment, specialness, specification, state forest, stipulation, store, string, strings, taking on, term, terms, territory, tract, waiver, wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve, withholding
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