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Meaning of 'reservation'
Meaning of 'reservation' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Reservation 
[ n.]
- The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or
withholding from disclosure; reserve. [ n.]- 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]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- a statement that limits or restricts some claim
- 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)
- 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
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