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reservation

[rez-er-vey-shuhn]

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noun

the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.

the act of making an exception or qualification.

an exception or qualification made expressly or tacitly: to accept something, but with inner reservations.

a tract of public land set apart for a special purpose, as for the use of an Indian tribe.

an arrangement to secure accommodations at a restaurant or hotel, on a boat or plane, etc.

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the record kept or assurance given of such an arrangement: Sorry, the hotel has no reservation under that name.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English reservacioun < Middle French reservation, equivalent to reserv(er) to reserve + -ation -ation

Related forms

non·res·er·va·tion, noun

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Example Sentences

OpenTable certainly makes it painless to find a good restaurant and make a reservation.

My only reservation about this article is the meat-eating triumphalism evident in many of the comments.

It is still almost impossible to get a reservation at the best restaurants.

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OpenTable certainly makes it painless to find a good restaurant and make a reservation.

My only reservation about this article is the meat-eating triumphalism evident in many of the comments.

It is still almost impossible to get a reservation at the best restaurants.

The animal population on the reservation is at crisis levels.

If anyone can justify what is being done currently, they either are clueless or haven't spent time on a reservation.

When news of the next tour surfaces, get ready to pounce for a reservation.

Should you be inclined to agree, you better look out for a reservation list.

But he undertook to keep the reservation from reverting to the state by moving onto it and persuading relatives to do the same.

To survive reservation conditions one needs to be both persistent and intelligent.

When such a freedom comes under threat of violence, the job of governments should be to defend it without reservation.

Volunteers help construct new picnic tables on the reservation.

Activating the travel tab puts you in a full-service reservation system.

My only reservation is that the dept chair may still be inconvenienced by your action.

All the hotel group provides is its brand and its online reservation system in return for a cut of the takings.

Clifford used an interesting perspective to frame a pair of hands in the shape of a heart within the landscape of her reservation.

But advocates for the blind have one reservation about the product: its price tag.

At a minimum a reservation would be required, and normally a fee would be charged as well.

We're only getting the kinds of things that are capable of making an airline reservation.

In those days such reservation systems were at the cutting edge of computer applications.

At many new restaurants, reservation book exclusivity has been replaced by a populist no-reservations scrum.

Stop wasting your time on the internet, buy yourself a bus ticket, make a reservation at a cheap motel down.

There are riots, there is casteism, but then there is reservation for both the lower castes as well as the poor.

It's at the other end of customer-support hotlines and airline reservation systems.

Where to find the best camping, even when you haven't made a reservation.

Finally she got back to me, saying she'd already made her reservation.

Reservation inflation has therefore been on the rise, infuriating the losers.

If you can, book for more nights than you need and adjust the reservation once you have the flights sorted.

The reservation form is included in the backcountry trip planner, available from the backcountry office.

Spur of the moment as the choice was, our party had no reservation.

Access is only available with a campsite reservation or backpacking permit.

Let me grab my beeper and make a reservation from my improbably large car phone.

But one renowned warrior led a group away from the reservation to resume raiding and rebellion.

As a result, farmers' income increased relative to the overall economy and raised the reservation wages of migrant workers.

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World English Dictionary

reservation (ˌrɛzəˈveɪʃən)

—n
1.	the act or an instance of reserving
2.	something reserved, esp hotel accommodation, a seat on an aeroplane, in a theatre, etc
3.	(often plural) a stated or unstated qualification of opinion that prevents one's wholehearted acceptance of a proposal, claim, statement, etc
4.	an area of land set aside, esp (in the US) for American Indian peoples
5.	(Brit) the strip of land between the two carriageways of a dual carriageway
6.	the act or process of keeping back, esp for oneself; withholding
7.	law a right or interest retained by the grantor in property granted, conveyed, leased, etc, to another: a reservation of rent

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Word Origin & History

reservation

c.1380, "act of reserving," from M.Fr. reservation, from L.L. reservationem (nom. reservatio), from L. reservatus, pp. of reservare (see reserve). U.S. Indian tribe sense is recorded from 1789, originally in ref. to the Six Nations in New York State. Meaning "act or fact

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of engaging a room, a seat, etc." is from 1904, originally Amer.Eng.

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