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re-serve

[ree-surv]

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–verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -served, -serv⋅ing.

to serve again.

Origin:
1865–70; re- + serve

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re⋅serve

[ri-zurv]

verb, -served, -serv⋅ing, noun, adjective

–verb (used with object)

1.	to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.

2.	to retain or secure by express stipulation.

3.	to set apart for a particular use, purpose, service, etc.: ground reserved for gardening.

4.	to keep for oneself.

5.	to retain (the original color) of a surface, as on a painted ceramic piece.

6.	to save or set aside (a portion of the Eucharistic elements) to be administered, as to the sick, outside of the Mass or communion service.

–noun

Finance.

a.	cash, or assets readily convertible into cash, held aside, as by a corporation, bank, state or national government, etc., to meet expected or unexpected demands.

b.	uninvested cash held to comply with legal requirements.

8.	something kept or stored for use or need; stock: a reserve of food.

9.	a resource not normally called upon but available if needed.

10.	a tract of public land set apart for a special purpose: a forest reserve.

11.	an act of reserving; reservation, exception, or qualification: I will do what you ask, but with one reserve.

12.

Military.

a.	a fraction of a military force held in readiness to sustain the attack or defense made by the rest of the force.

b.	the part of a country's fighting force not in active service.

c.	reserves, the enrolled but not regular components of the U.S. Army.

13.	formality and self-restraint in manner and relationship; avoidance of familiarity or intimacy with others: to conduct oneself with reserve.

14.	reticence or silence.

–adjective

15.	kept in reserve; forming a reserve: a reserve fund; a reserve supply.

16.	of or pertaining to the animal awarded second place in livestock shows: the reserve champion steer.

—Idioms

17.	in reserve, put aside or withheld for a future need; reserved: money in reserve.

18.

without reserve,

a.	without restraint; frankly; freely.

b.	(of articles at auction) without limitation as to the terms of sale, esp. with no stipulated minimum price.

Origin:
1325–75; ME reserven (v.) < MF reserver < L reservāre to keep back, retain, equiv. to re- re- + servāre to save

Related forms:

re⋅serv⋅a⋅ble, adjective

re⋅serve⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
1. husband, hold, store. See keep. 8. supply. 14. taciturnity, constraint, coldness.

Antonyms:
1. squander. 13, 14. warmth.

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re·serve (rĭ-zûrv')

tr.v. re·served, re·serv·ing, re·serves

To keep back, as for future use or for a special purpose.
To set or cause to be set apart for a particular person or use. See Synonyms at book.
To keep or secure for oneself; retain: I reserve the right to disagree. See Synonyms at keep.

Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose.
The act of reserving.
The keeping of one's feelings, thoughts, or affairs to oneself.
Self-restraint in expression; reticence: "One feels it everywhere, a quality of reserve, something held back" (Rollene W. Saal).
Lack of enthusiasm; skeptical caution.
An amount of capital held back from investment in order to meet probable or possible demands.
A reservation of public land: a forest reserve.
An amount of a mineral, fossil fuel, or other resource known to exist in a particular location and to be exploitable: the discovery of large oil reserves.
1. A fighting force kept uncommitted until strategic need arises. Often used in the plural.
2. The part of a country's armed forces not on active duty but subject to call in an emergency.

adj. Held in or forming a reserve: a reserve supply of food.

[Middle English reserven, from Old French reserver, from Latin reservāre, to keep back : re-, re- + servāre, to keep; see ser-¹ in Indo-European roots.]
re·serv'a·ble adj., re·serv'er n.

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Reserve

Re*serve"\, n. 1. (Finance) (a) That part of the assets of a bank or other financial institution specially kept in cash in a more or less liquid form as a reasonable provision for meeting all demands which may be made upon it; specif.: (b) (Banking) Usually, the uninvested cash kept on hand for this purpose, called the real reserve. In Great Britain the ultimate real reserve is the gold kept on hand in the Bank of England, largely represented by the notes in hand in its own banking department; and any balance which a bank has with the Bank of England is a part of its reserve. In the United States the reserve of a national bank consists of the amount of lawful money it holds on hand against deposits, which is required by law to be not less than 15 per cent (--U. S. Rev. Stat. secs. 5191, 5192), three fifths of which the banks not in a reserve city (which see) may keep deposited as balances in national banks that are in reserve cities (--U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5192). (c) (Life Insurance) The amount of funds or assets necessary for a company to have at any given time to enable it, with interest and premiums paid as they shall accure, to meet all claims on the insurance then in force as they would mature according to the particular mortality table accepted. The reserve is always reckoned as a liability, and is calculated on net premiums. It is theoretically the difference between the present value of the total insurance and the present value of the future premiums on the insurance. The reserve, being an amount for which another company could, theoretically, afford to take over the insurance, is sometimes called the

reinsurance fund or the

self-insurance fund. For the first year upon any policy the net premium is called the

initial reserve, and the balance left at the end of the year including interest is the

terminal reserve. For subsequent years the initial reserve is the net premium, if any, plus the terminal reserve of the previous year. The portion of the reserve to be absorbed from the initial reserve in any year in payment of losses is sometimes called the

insurance reserve, and the terminal reserve is then called the

investment reserve.

2. In exhibitions, a distinction which indicates that the recipient will get a prize if another should be disqualified.

3. (Calico Printing) A resist.

4. A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.

5. See Army organization, above.

Reserve

Re*serve"\ (r?-z?rv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reserved. (z?rvd");p. pr. & vb. n. Reserving.] [F. r['e]server, L. reservare, reservatum; pref. re- re- + servare to keep. See Serve.]

1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." --Shak.

2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. --Gen. xxvii. 35.

Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble? --Job xxxviii. 22,23.

Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours. --Swift.

3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.]

Reserve

Re*serve"\, n. [F. r['e]serve.]

1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.

However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations. --Addison.

2. That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.

The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply. --Tillotson.

3. That which is excepted; exception.

Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve. --Rogers.

4. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined, Left all reserve, and all the sex, behind. --Prior.

The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. --Hawthorne.

5. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.

6. (Mil.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.

7. (Banking) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.

In reserve, in keeping for other or future use; in store; as, he has large quantities of wheat in reserve; he has evidence or arguments in reserve.

Reserve air. (Physiol.) Same as Supplemental air, under Supplemental.

Syn: Reservation; retention; limitation; backwardness; reservedness; coldness; restraint; shyness; coyness; modesty.

Language Translation for : reserve

Spanish: reservar,

German: reservieren,

Japanese: 予約する

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reserve (v.)

1340, from O.Fr. reserver, from L. reservare "keep back, save back," from re- "back" + servare "to keep, save, preserve, protect" (see observe). The noun meaning "something stored up" is from 1658. Reserved (in manner) first recorded 1601 in Shakespeare ("All's Well" v.3).

reserve

The funds that are earmarked by a firm from its retained earnings for future use, such as for the payment of likely-to-be-incurred bad debts. The existence of such a reserve informs readers of the firm's financial statements that at least a part of the retained earnings will not be available to the stockholders. See also allowance for doubtful accounts, reserve for contingencies.

Main Entry: re·serve
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: re·served; re·serv·ing
: to keep back or set apart: as a : to keep (a right, power, or interest) esp. by express declaration reserved> —compare WAIVE b : to defer a determination of (a question of law) reserved the question because it was not an issue in the case>

Main Entry: reserve
Function: noun
1 : something stored or kept available for future use reserves>
2 : an act of reserving
3 : money kept in a separate account to meet future liabilities

legal reserve
: the minimum amount as determined by government standards of the deposits held by a bank or of the assets of a life insurance company required by law to be kept as reserves

loss reserve
1 : a reserve allocated by a bank for the purpose of absorbing losses loss reserve>
2 : an insurance company's reserve representing the discounted value of future payments to be made on losses which may have already occurred

policy reserve
: an insurance company's reserve representing the difference in value between the net premiums and assumed claims for a given year in life insurance

unearned premium reserve
: a reserve of funds which represents premiums paid to an insurance company but not yet applied to policy coverage and from which a policyholder is paid a refund in the event of cancellation prior to the period for which premiums have been paid
4 : RESERVE PRICE—with reserve : with a reserve price and with a seller reserving the right to reject all bids
NOTE: A sale at auction is with reserve if there is no explicit indication to the contrary.—without reserve : without a reserve price and with the seller bound to accept the highest bid

Main Entry: ¹re·serve
Pronunciation: ri-'z&rv
Function: noun
1 : something stored or kept available for future use or needreserve> —see CARDIAC RESERVE
2 : the capacity of a solution toneutralize alkali or acid when its reaction is shifted from one hydrogen-ion concentration to another; especially : the capacity of blood or bacteriological media to react with acid oralkali within predetermined and usually physiological limits of hydrogen-ion concentration —compare BUFFER, BUFFER SOLUTION

Main Entry: ²reserve
Function: adjective
: constituting or having the form or function of a reserve reserve supply> <reservestrength>

reserve re·serve (rĭ-zûrv')
v. re·served, re·serv·ing, re·serves

To keep back, as for future use or for a special purpose.
To set or cause to be set apart for a particular person or use.

n.
Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose. adj.

Held back, set aside, or saved.
Forming a reserve.

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