Definition of Reservation

1. Noun. A district that is reserved for particular purpose.


2. Noun. A statement that limits or restricts some claim. "He recommended her without any reservations"
Exact synonyms: Qualification
Generic synonyms: Statement
Specialized synonyms: Fine Print, Small Print, Weasel Word
Derivative terms: Qualify

3. Noun. An unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly.

4. Noun. The act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group). "Wondered who had made the booking"
Exact synonyms: Booking
Generic synonyms: Employment, Engagement
Derivative terms: Book, Book, Reserve, Reserve

5. Noun. The written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance.
Generic synonyms: Agreement, Understanding

6. Noun. Something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.).
Generic synonyms: Prearrangement
Specialized synonyms: Upgrade
Derivative terms: Reserve, Reserve

7. Noun. The act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion.
Generic synonyms: Preservation, Saving
Derivative terms: Reserve

Definition of Reservation

1. n. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.

Definition of Reservation

1. Noun. The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back. ¹

2. Noun. Something that is withheld or kept back. ¹

3. Noun. A limiting qualification (often used in the plural). ¹

4. Noun. (American English) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian (term reserve)). ¹

5. Noun. An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance. ¹

6. Noun. (U.K.) the area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reservation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Reservation

1. 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. "With reservation of an hundred knights." (Shak) "Make some reservation of your wrongs." (Shak) 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. A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before. A proviso. This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded. 6. The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick. A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices. Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc, and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import. Origin: Cf. F. Reservation, LL. Reservatio. See Reserve. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reservation

resenting
resentingly
resentive
resentment
resentments
resents
resequence
resequenced
resequencing
resequestration
reserate
reserpine
reserpines
reservable
reservance
reservation (current term)
reservationist
reservationists
reservations
reservative
reservatories
reservatory
reserve(a)
reserve account
reserve air
reserve bank
reserve clause
reserve currency

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