reservation

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 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.
• Something that is withheld or kept back.
• A limiting qualification regarding certainty or risk; a doubt or concern.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Examples

• A vehicle crashed through the central reservation into the path of oncoming traffic.
• I have a hotel reservation in the name of Mr Smith.
• I have reservations about your intentions.
• I have some reservations about cosigning a loan for him.
• The committee authorised the reservation of funds.

Synonyms

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

Related Words

reserve, safety island, traffic island