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reservationist

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res⋅er⋅va⋅tion⋅ist

[rez-er-vey-shuh-nist]
–noun
a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.

Origin:
1915–20, Americanism; reservation + -ist
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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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