reservation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
law
politics
Etymology: From Middle French reservation, equivalent to reserve + -ation.
Base: reserve
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: reservations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The committee authorised the reservation of funds.
gloss: The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that is withheld or kept back.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A limiting qualification regarding certainty or risk; a doubt or concern.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
often
uncountable
examples: I have reservations about your intentions.
I have some reservations about cosigning a loan for him.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have a hotel reservation in the name of Mr Smith.
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.
gloss: The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: A vehicle crashed through the central reservation into the path of oncoming traffic.
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.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: reserve
safety island
traffic island
Derived words: antireservation
go off the reservation
jump the reservation
mental reservation
nonreservation
off the reservation
reservation booking designator
reservationism
reservationist
reservation price
seat reservation ticket
unreservation
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: запазване
roman: zapazvane
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 保留
roman: bǎoliú
lang: Danish
word: reservation
lang: Esperanto
word: rezervado
lang: Finnish
word: varaaminen
lang: French
word: réservation
lang: German
word: Reservierung
lang: Hungarian
word: tartalékolás
lang: Hungarian
word: félretevés
lang: Hungarian
word: félretétel
lang: Hungarian
word: visszatartás
lang: Hungarian
word: fenntartás
lang: Japanese
word: 保留
roman: horyū
lang: Malayalam
word: സംവരണം
roman: saṁvaraṇaṁ
lang: Occitan
word: reservacion
lang: Portuguese
word: reserva
lang: Portuguese
word: reservação
lang: Russian
word: оставле́ние
roman: ostavlénije
lang: Russian
word: сохране́ние
roman: soxranénije
lang: Swedish
word: reservation
lang: Ukrainian
word: резервува́ння
roman: rezervuvánnja