reservation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛzɚˈveɪ.ʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /rɪzə(r)ˈveʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: reservations
Etymology: From Middle French reservation, equivalent to reserve + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The committee authorised the reservation of funds.
glosses: The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
glosses: The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
glosses: The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
glosses: Something that is withheld or kept back.
examples: text: I have reservations about your intentions.
text: I have some reservations about cosigning a loan for him.
text: Apart from the problemette with the punchy bits, I've got only one reservation with the game and that's that the tie-in element is a bit shaky to say the least.
ref: 1992, Jonny Quest (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 75, page 16)
glosses: A limiting qualification regarding certainty or risk; a doubt or concern.
synonyms: reserve
;
res
rez
rezzy
glosses: A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people, such as the Hopi Reservation or the Navajo Nation's territory.
examples: text: I have a hotel reservation in the name of Mr Smith.
text: I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
examples: text: A vehicle crashed through the central reservation into the path of oncoming traffic.
text: A three-lane motorway can be up to (or even more than) 35 metres wide, with a hard shoulder on either side and a central reservation.
ref: 2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 34:
synonyms: central reservation
median
median strip
coordinate_terms: safety island
traffic island
glosses: The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway.
glosses: The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
topics: government
law
politics
coordinate_terms: disallowance
glosses: A power of an overseeing authority to suspend legislation in the jurisdiction being overseen pending the approval of a higher authority. Such as a provincial/state governor reserving a bill passed by the state/provincial legislature from assent, pending approval of the federal government; or a federal bill passed by federal parliament being reserved by the viceroy pending approval by the crown.
Synonyms: sense: advance arrangement
word: booking
sense: central reservation, motorway lane separator
word: median
sense: central reservation, motorway lane separator
word: median strip
sense: Indian reservation
word: reserve
sense: Indian reservation
word: res
sense: Indian reservation
word: rez
Derived terms: go off the reservation
jump the reservation
mental reservation
off the reservation
reservation booking designator
reservation price
seat reservation ticket
Related terms: reserve
safety island
traffic island