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reservation - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'reservation' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Reservation [ n.]
- The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
- Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
- A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.
- The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
- A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
- A proviso.
- The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
- A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.

Meaning of 'reservation' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . reservation [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a statement that limits or restricts some claim
Example in sentence:
  • he recommended her without any reservations
Meaning (2):
- the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)
Example in sentence:
  • wondered who had made the booking