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Reservation   /rˌɛzərvˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Reservation

noun
1.
A district that is reserved for particular purpose.  Synonym: reserve.
2.
A statement that limits or restricts some claim.  Synonym: qualification.
3.
An unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly.  Synonyms: arriere pensee, mental reservation.
4.
The act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group).  Synonym: booking.
5.
The written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance.
6.
Something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.).
7.
The act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion.



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"Reservation" Quotes from Famous Books



... year 1839 grandfather sold his place in Wadsworth, and moved to the Sandusky Plains, a level, marshy prairie, in northwestern Ohio. Part of the Plains belonged to the Wyandotte Indian Reservation, and was opened to settlement, a few years afterward, by the removal of the Indians ...
— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler
... carefully. The Rutlandshire Gazette quoted Shakespeare, the Thrums Times compared him with Christopher North, the Stamford-bridge Herald thought that his style resembled that of Macaulay, but they were unanimous in praising his book without reservation. It seemed to the author that he was listening to the authentic voice of fame. He rested his chin on his hand and ...
— The Ghost Ship • Richard Middleton
... office. They complain that trespasses are committed by settlers on the lands reserved to them. The trespasses arise from the construction of mill-dams, by which their grounds are overflowed. They asked whether they hold the reservation for fifty years or otherwise. I replied that they hold them, by the terms of the treaty, as long as they shall have any posterity to live on the lands. They only escheat to the United States in failure of this. But that I would send an agent ...
— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
... a man who had boasted a long career of success was the way to rouse his pride, and determine him to overcome her resistance. Angelique was not mistaken. Bigot saw her resolution, and, although it was with a mental reservation to deceive her, he promised to banish Caroline ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... will arrest all suspicious looking characters prowling about the post or camp, all persons of a disorderly character disturbing the peace, and all persons taken in the act of committing crime against the Government on a military reservation or post. All persons arrested by corporals of the guard, or by sentinels, will at once be conducted to the commander of the guard ...
— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss


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