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res⋅er⋅va⋅tion

  [rez-er-vey-shuhn]
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–noun
1. the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.
2. the act of making an exception or qualification.
3. an exception or qualification made expressly or tacitly: to accept something, but with inner reservations.
4. a tract of public land set apart for a special purpose, as for the use of an Indian tribe.
5. an arrangement to secure accommodations at a restaurant or hotel, on a boat or plane, etc.
6. the record kept or assurance given of such an arrangement: Sorry, the hotel has no reservation under that name.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME reservacioun < MF reservation, equiv. to reserv(er) to reserve + -ation -ation
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res·er·va·tion   (rěz'ər-vā'shən)   
n.  
  1. The act of reserving; a keeping back or withholding.
  2. Something that is kept back or withheld.
  3. A limiting qualification, condition, or exception: has reservations about the proposal.
  4. A tract of land set apart by the federal government for a special purpose, especially one for the use of a Native American people.
    1. An arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance, as in a hotel or on an airplane.
    2. The accommodations so secured.
    3. The record or promise of such an arrangement.
res'er·va'tion·ist n.
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Reservation

Res`er*va"tion\ (r?z`?r-v?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]servation, LL. reservatio. See Reserve.]

1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. --A. Smith.

With reservation of an hundred knights. --Shak.

Make some reservation of your wrongs. --Shak.

2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. --Dryden.

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. --Shak.

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. --Kent.

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.

Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : reservation
Spanish: reserva,
German: die Reservierung,
Japanese: 予約
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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 of engaging a room, a seat, etc." is from 1904, originally Amer.Eng.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: res·er·va·tion
Function: noun
1 : the act or an instance of reserving <reservation of rights>
2 : the creation by and for a grantor of a new right or interest (as an easement) in real property granted to another; also : the right or interest so created or the clause creating it in a deed —compare EXCEPTION
3 a : public land reserved for a special purpose (as conservation) b : a tract of land reserved for use by an American Indian tribe —see also Indian Removal Act of 1830 in the IMPORTANT LAWS section —compare Indian title at TITLE
NOTE: The federal government has jurisdiction over certain serious felonies committed on American Indian reservations, and a member of a tribe is vested with the rights of an American citizen even if in a tribal court proceeding. Prior to the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, states could obtain civil and criminal jurisdiction over a reservation or other American Indian lands by legislative action, but that Act created the requirement that such jurisdiction be acquired with the consent of the tribe as manifest in an election among tribal adults. This requirement was not retroactive. Federal land claim settlement acts pertaining to particular states have included statutes expressly assigning civil and criminal jurisdiction to the states involved.
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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