Reservation

What do we mean by reservation?

The act of reserving; a keeping back or withholding. noun

A limiting qualification, condition, or exception. noun

A doubt or misgiving. noun

A tract of land set apart by the federal government for a special purpose, especially one for the use of a Native American people. noun

An arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance, as in a hotel or restaurant or on an airplane. noun

The act of reserving or keeping back; reserve; concealment or withholding from disclosure. noun

Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. noun

In the United States, a traet of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, the use of Indians, etc.: as, the Crow reservation. Also reserve. noun

The state of being treasured up or kept in store; custody; safe keeping. noun

In law: noun

An express withholding of certain rights the surrender of which would otherwise follow or might be inferred from one's act (Mackeldey); a clause or part of an instrument by which something is reserved. noun

Technically, in the law of conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor of real property reserves to himself, or himself and his successors in interest, some new thing to issue out of the thing granted, as distinguished from excepting a part of the thing itself. noun

The right created by such a clause. noun

Eccles.: noun

The act or practice of retaining or preserving part of the consecrated eucharistic elements or species, especially that of bread, unconsumed for a shorter or longer period after the celebration of the sacrament. noun

In the Roman Catholic Church, the act of the Pope in reserving to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices. noun

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

Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. noun

A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. noun

The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.

Something that is withheld or kept back.

(often in the plural) A limiting qualification; a doubt.

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

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

The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.

The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).

Words that are spelled similarly to reservation:
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Words that rhyme with reservation:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective reservation:
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Words that sound like reservation:
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