Dictionary Definition
reserve adj
1 not engaged in military action [syn: inactive, reserve(a)]
2 kept in reserve especially for emergency use;
"a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts" [syn:
reserve(a),
spare]
Noun
1 formality and propriety of manner [syn:
modesty]
3 an athlete who plays only when another member
of the team drops out [syn: substitute]
4 (medicine) potential capacity to respond in
order to maintain vital functions
5 a district that is reserved for particular
purpose [syn: reservation]
6 armed forces that are not on active duty but
can be called in an emergency [syn: military
reserve]
7 the trait of being uncommunicative; not
volunteering anything more than necessary [syn: reticence, taciturnity]
Verb
1 hold back or set aside, especially for future
use or contingency; "they held back their applause in
anticipation"
2 give or assign a share of money or time to a
particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your
research" [syn: allow,
appropriate,
earmark, set
aside]
3 obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance; "We
managed to reserve a table at Maxim's"
4 arrange for and reserve (something for someone
else) in advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent
booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a
table at Maxim's" [syn: hold, book]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)v
Noun
- The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
- That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
- That which is excepted; exception.
- Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
- A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
- A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
- A member of a sports team who does not participate from the start of the game, who can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
- Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
Related terms
Translations
the act of reserving, or keeping back;
reservation
- Finnish: varaus, varaaminen
- Japanese: 予約
- Norwegian: bestilling, reservering, reservasjon
that which is reserved, or kept back, as for
future use
- Finnish: reservi, varasto
- Hungarian: tartalék
- Japanese: 予備, 備蓄
- Norwegian: reservasjon
that which is excepted; exception
- Japanese: 余剰
- Norwegian: reservasjon
restraint of freedom in words or actions
- Finnish: varautuneisuus
- Japanese: 自制, 控えめ
- Norwegian: reserverthet, tilbakeholdenhet
tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a
particular purpose
- Finnish: reservaatti, -alue
- Japanese: 保留地, 予備地
- Norwegian: reservat
body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up
for battle
- Finnish: reservi
- Japanese: 予備兵力; 予備役
- Norwegian: reserve, reservetropp
member of a sports team who does not participate
from the start of the game
- Finnish: varamies
- Japanese: 控え, 補欠
- Norwegian: reserve, reservespiller
funds kept on hand to meet liabilities
- Finnish: varanto, vararahasto
- Japanese: 準備金; 引当金
- Norwegian: forråd, reserve, reservefond
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Chinese: 儲備, 储备 (chǔbèi)
- ttbc Croatian: rezerva
- ttbc Dutch: reserve
- ttbc French: réservation
- ttbc German: Reservieren (1), Reserve (2,6), Reserviertheit (4)
- ttbc Greek: επιφύλαξη (epifílaksi)
- ttbc Italian: riserva
- ttbc Korean: 예비 (yebi)
- ttbc Portuguese: reserva
- ttbc Russian: запас (zapás) , резерв (rezérv)
- ttbc Spanish: reserva
- ttbc Swedish: reserv
Verb
- To keep back or for oneself; to retain.
- We reserve the right for modifications.
- To keep in store for
future or special use.
- This cake is reserved for the guests!
- To book in advance; to
make a reservation.
- I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town.
- To make an exception of; to except.
Translations
to keep back; to retain
- Finnish: pitää (itsellään), varata
- Japanese: qualifier to keep back 残す
- Norwegian: holde av, reservere, sette av
to keep in store for future or special use
to book in advance
- Finnish: varata
- Japanese: 予約する
- Norwegian: bestille, reservere
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Chinese: 保留 (bǎoliú)
- ttbc Dutch: reserveren
- ttbc French: réserver
- ttbc German: reservieren (2)
- ttbc Italian: riservare
- ttbc Japanese: 留保する
- ttbc Korean: 예약하다 (yeyakhada)
- ttbc Portuguese: reservar
- ttbc Russian: резервировать (rezervírovat’)
- ttbc Spanish: reservar
- ttbc Swedish: reservera
Extensive Definition
Reserve (sometimes Reserves) may refer to:
- Course reserve, library materials reserved for particular users
- Dynamic reserve, the set of metabolites that the organism can use for metabolic purposes
- Reserve clause, in North American professional sports contracts
- Game reserve, land set aside for maintenance of wildlife for tourism or hunting
- Fuel reserve, an extra fuel tank, or extra fuel in the main fuel tank
- Recreation reserve, a park with sporting or other recreational facilities
- Reserve stockpile, bulk materials reserved for future use
- Reserved decision, where a judge takes time to review evidence and the law and delivers a decision at a later time
- Nature reserve, a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest,
- Indian reserve, in Canada, a tract of land reserved for the use and benefit of a band
- Reserve team, the second team fielded by a sports club, often football-soccer
- Official gold reserves, held by central banks as a store of value
- Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an emergency petroleum store maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy
- Fractional-reserve banking
- Bank reserves, holdings of deposits in central banks plus currency that is physically held in bank vaults
- Foreign
exchange reserves, the foreign currency deposits held by
central banks and monetary authorities
- Reserve currency, a currency which is held in significant quantities as part of foreign exchange reserves
- Reserve (accounting), any part of shareholders' equity, except for basic share capital
- Natural resource reserves, natural resources that are economically recoverable, e.g. Oil reserves
- Actuarial reserves, a liability equal to the present value of the future expected cash flows of a contingent event
- Military reserve force, part-time military personnel and civilians who are available to fight when a nation mobilizes for war
- Military reserve, military personnel not committed to battle so that they are available to address unforeseen situations
- Reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States, "the Guard and Reserves"
- War Reserve Stock, a collection of warfighting material held in reserve in pre-positioned storage to be used if needed in wartime
See also
- Reservation (disambiguation)
- Preserve (disambiguation)
- Reservoir (disambiguation)
reserve in German: Reserve
reserve in French: Réserve
reserve in Ido: Rezervajo
reserve in Indonesian: Cadangan
reserve in Italian: Riserva
reserve in Dutch: Reserve
reserve in Japanese: リザーブ
reserve in Polish: Rezerwat
reserve in Portuguese: Reserva
reserve in Russian: Резерв
reserve in Finnish: Reservi
reserve in Volapük: Reserve
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Indian reservation, abstain, accessible, adjourn, allocate, allot, aloofness, alternate, alternative, aplomb, appoint, appropriate to,
archives, assign, assign to, auxiliary, available, avoidance, backlog, backup, backwardness, bank, bashfulness, bespeak, bird sanctuary,
blankness, book, brachylogy, brevity, brief, briefness, brusqueness, cache, charter, chilliness, coldness, compactness, compendiousness,
conciseness,
concision, conserve, constraint, continue, contract for,
coolness, counterfeit, crispness, curtness, defer, delay, destine, detachment, detail, detain, discreetness, discretion, dispense with,
distance, do without,
dodging, drag out,
dummy, earmark, employ, engage, equivalent, ersatz, evasion, expressionlessness,
extend, extra, fake, fate, forbear, forest preserve,
forgo, formality, fresh, frigidity, frostiness, fudging, fund, game reserve, guardedness, hang fire, hang
up, hedging, held back,
held in reserve, held out, hesitancy, hesitation, hire, hoard, hold, hold back, hold off, hold
over, hold up, husband,
iciness, imitation, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, in
abeyance, in hand, in readiness, in reserve, in store, inaccessibility,
introversion,
inventory, keep, keep back, keep by one, keep
in hand, keep in reserve, keep in store, keep on hand, lay aside,
lay by, lay over, let alone, library, limit, limitation, lot, make assignments, makeshift, mark off, mark out
for, mint, mock, modesty, museum, national forest, national
park, nest egg, new, not
touch, not use, on call, on hand, on tap, ordain, original, paradise, park, phony, pigeonhole, pinch, pithiness, pointedness, portion off,
postpone, preengage, preserve, pristine, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, provisional, proxy, push aside, put apart, put
aside, put by, put off, put on ice, ready, recess, recruit, refrain, register, reinforcements, remoteness, repression, reservation, reserve fund,
reserve supply, reservedness, reserves, reservoir, resource, restraint, restrict, restrict to, restriction, retain, reticence, reticency, retirement, retiring
disposition, sanctuary, save, save up, saved, savings, schedule, secondary, secure, self-control,
self-restraint, sententiousness,
set, set apart, set aside,
set by, set off, shelve,
shift off, shortness,
sign on, sign up, sign up for, sinking fund, sleep on, something in
reserve, spare, stand
over, standoffishness, state
forest, stave off, stay,
stock, stockpile, stopgap, store, stored, stretch out, subduedness, substitute, succinctness, summariness, supply, suppression, suspend, suspended, table, taciturnity, tag, take a recess, take into
employment, take on, temporary, tentative, terseness, to spare, token, unaffability, unapplied, unapproachability,
unbeaten, uncongeniality, unconsumed, undemonstrativeness,
unemployed, unexercised, unexpansiveness,
unexpended,
unexpended balance, unhandled, unspent, untapped, untouched, untrodden, unused, unutilized, utility, vicarious, waive, waived, wilderness preserve,
wildlife preserve, withdrawal, withdrawnness, withhold