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/rˌɛzərvˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Reservation n.

1.

The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. "With reservation of an hundred knights." "Make some reservation of your wrongs."

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. (U.S.)

4.

The state of being reserved, or kept in store.

5.

(Law)

(a)

A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.

(b)

A proviso. Note: This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded.

6.

(Eccl.)

(a)

The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.

(b)

A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.

7.

An agreement to have some space, service or other acommodation, as at a hotel, a restaurant, or on a public transport system, held for one's future use; also, the record or receipt for such an agreement, or the contractual obligation to retain that accommodation; as, a hotel reservation; a reservation on a flight to Dallas; to book a reservation at the Ritz.

Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.

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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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