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Reserve

noun

1.

Formality and propriety of manner. Synonym: modesty.

2.

Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose. Synonyms: backlog, stockpile.

3.

An athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced. Synonyms: second-stringer, substitute.

4.

(medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions.

5.

A district that is reserved for particular purpose. Synonym: reservation.

6.

Armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency. Synonym: military reserve.

7.

The trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary. Synonyms: reticence, taciturnity.

verb

(past & past part. reserved; pres. part. reserving)

1.

Hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency.

2.

Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause. Synonyms: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside. "She sets aside time for meditation every day"

3.

Obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance.

4.

Arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance. Synonyms: book, hold. "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family" , "Please hold a table at Maxim's"

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"Reserve" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the individual soldiers—are manufactured at the Springfield (Mass.) Armory, which is the government's great small-arms factory, and at the Rock Island (Ill.) Arsenal—the facilities of the latter having hitherto been held in reserve for emergency purposes. The rifle cartridges are turned out at the Frankford Arsenal, in Philadelphia, and at private plants in Lowell, New Haven, Bridgeport and Cincinnati. These concerns and another near St. Louis also make the cartridges for ...

— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

... at the beginning. I was sent to Scotland Yard in London to be trained in my new duties. You saw me there, and claimed me for your staff, and I came to this centre of shipbuilding and worked here with you. I was clothed in the uniform of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. ...

— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone

... tiresome discussions carried on for ten days, with the effect that a part of the peasants, seeing nothing come from it, returned home. But the peasants had, in spite of all, the upper hand; by a roll-call vote 359 against 314 pronounced themselves for the defense without reserve ...

— Bolshevism - The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy • John Spargo

... evening of his departure; and Lucie had no reason to believe her sentiments respecting his attachment were at all changed. Pride and delicacy restrained her from entering on a theme, which was so pointedly shunned; but she felt wounded by a reserve that she had never before experienced; and the silence imposed on her, only gave more activity to her thoughts, which were perpetually engrossed by a subject, so closely connected with her happiness. Mad. de la Tour's ...

— The Rivals of Acadia - An Old Story of the New World • Harriet Vaughan Cheney

... set going and the agents which have the work in hand. He had decreed war against the princes who were heretics or protectors of heretics; and he had promised their domains to their conquerors. He meant to reserve to himself the right of pronouncing definitive judgment as to the condemnation of princes as heretics, and as to dispossessing them of their dominions; but when force had done its business on the very spot, when the condemnation ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume II. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

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