reservation
/ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/
An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance; The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back; Something that is withheld or kept back; A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people, such as the Hopi Reservation or the Navajo Nation's territory
- plural
- reservations
Meanings
- 1
An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance
Tom canceled his hotel reservation.
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I canceled my hotel reservation.
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- 2
The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back
- 3
Something that is withheld or kept back
- 4
A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people, such as the Hopi Reservation or the Navajo Nation's territory
- 5
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 sickrare
- 6
The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.; The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain beneficesrare
- 7
A limiting qualification regarding certainty or risk; a doubt or concernrare
- 8
The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriagewayrare
- 9
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)rare
- 10
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 crownrare