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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
7. 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
  1. To keep back, as for future use or for a special purpose.
  2. To set or cause to be set apart for a particular person or use. See Synonyms at book.
  3. To keep or secure for oneself; retain: I reserve the right to disagree. See Synonyms at keep.
n.  
  1. Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose.
  2. The act of reserving.
  3. The keeping of one's feelings, thoughts, or affairs to oneself.
  4. Self-restraint in expression; reticence: "One feels it everywhere, a quality of reserve, something held back" (Rollene W. Saal).
  5. Lack of enthusiasm; skeptical caution.
  6. An amount of capital held back from investment in order to meet probable or possible demands.
  7. A reservation of public land: a forest reserve.
  8. 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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