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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



... examples of generous love from Suckling and Milton, but takes offence at a letter containing some sarcastic remarks on married women. We know that Steele was personally acquainted with Mrs. Manley, and it is possible that he knew Mrs. Haywood, since she later dedicated a novel to him. With some reservation, then, we may accept this sketch as a fair likeness. As a young matron of seventeen or eighteen she was evidently a lively, unconventional, opinionated gadabout fond of the company of similar She-romps, who exchanged verses and specimen letters with the lesser celebrities ...
— The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood • George Frisbie Whicher
... lands and it was specially provided that as soon as the sum of four thousand merks Scots was paid by Kenneth Bayne and John Mackenzie, they should be obliged to give the said Thomas Mackenzie one chaldron of victual, or one hundred merks Scots yearly, over and above the reservation above-mentioned. ...
— History Of The Mackenzies • Alexander Mackenzie
... Southwest, in the summer of 1885, it was my good fortune to arrive at the Navajo Reservation a few days before the commencement of a Navajo healing ceremonial. Learning of the preparation for this, I decided to remain and observe the ceremony, which was to continue nine days and nights. The occasion drew to the place ...
— Eighth Annual Report • Various
... of to-day may well pause, before he starts to an Indian reservation. What is the mysterious benefit which the poet derives from nature? Humility and common sense, Burns would probably answer, and that response would not appeal to the majority of poets. A mystical experience ...
— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins
... One reservation, indeed, must be made. The books and traditions of a sect may contain, mingled with propositions strictly theological, other propositions, purporting to rest on the same authority, which relate to physics. If new discoveries should throw discredit ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay


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