reservation
Other forms: reservations
A reservation is something set aside, like a table at a restaurant or land for Native Americans.
For fancy restaurants and hotels, you need a reservation: you call ahead and ask them to set aside a table or room for you. A reservation is also a piece of land set aside by the government for a group. In the U.S., there are Native American reservations. Sometimes a reservation is a doubt. If you have reservations about taking a trip to Australia, then you're not sure about it. You're not rushing to make reservations at a hotel there.
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the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion
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the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)synonyms: booking
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something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)types:upgradea reservation that is improvedtype of:prearrangementsomething arranged in advance
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the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance
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a statement that limits or restricts some claim“he recommended her without any reservations”synonyms: qualificationtypes:fine print, small printthe part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small typeweasel wordan equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertiontype of:statementa message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
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an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedlysynonyms: arriere pensee, mental reservationtype of:doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertaintythe state of being unsure of something
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a district that is reserved for a particular purposesynonyms: reservetypes:Indian reservationa reservation set aside for the use of Indianspreservea reservation where animals are protectedshooting preservea preserve on which hunting is permitted during certain months of the yeartype of:administrative district, administrative division, territorial divisiona district defined for administrative purposes
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Arnold Spirit, Jr., a young cartoonist who lives on the Spokane Indian reservation, decides to transfer to a school in which he will be the only American Indian student.