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reserve

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See also: Reserve, réserve, réservé, reservé, rêsèrvé, and re-serve

English

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Etymology

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From Old French reserver, from Latin reservō (“to reserve, retain”).

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Noun

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reserve (countable and uncountable, plural reserves)

  1. A restriction.
    1. The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
      The book is on reserve.
      I accept your view with one reserve.
    2. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
  2. That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
    1. A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
      New oil reserves are continuously being discovered, but not as fast as the existing ones are running out.
    2. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
      the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio was originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut.
      the Clergy Reserves in Canada are for the support of the clergy.
    4. (Canada) A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group: Indian reserve.
      Alternative forms: res, rez (clippings)
      Synonym: reservation (US)
    5. (military) A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
      no reserves [the military force is throwing everything it has at the front]
    6. (finance, insurance) Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
    • 2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time‎[1]:
      The tone was set at Trump’s Inauguration. Tech moguls streamed into Washington; some sat behind the President during his Inaugural Address, a signal of the power they would wield. Over the next 11 months, they would use their enormous cash reserves, cultural power, and momentum to push their products into homes across the world.
    1. A reserve price in an auction.
      no reserve [the lot(s) will be sold no matter how low the bids are]
      reserve not met [the lot(s) will not be sold because the highest bid was too low to be acceptable]
    2. Wine held back and aged before being sold.
    3. (ceramics) Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
      • 1973, Charles Kyrle Wilkinson, Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period, New York, N.Y: Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 161:
        Each is decorated with a simple disk in reserve and a band in reserve adorned with white dots.
  3. Something initially kept back for later use in recreation.
    1. (sports) A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
    2. (card games) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
  4. In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
  5. (calico printing) A resist.
  6. A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.

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military: body of troops in the rear of an army
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Verb

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reserve (third-person singular simple present reserves, present participle reserving, simple past and past participle reserved)

  1. (transitive) To keep back; to retain.
    Synonym: hold
    We reserve the right to make modifications.
    I will reserve judgment until I have actually read his book.
  2. (transitive, ditransitive)
    1. To keep in store for future or special use.
      Synonyms: hold, save
      This cake is reserved for the guests! (transitive)
      Please reserve me a parking space if you can. (ditransitive)
      • c. 1703-1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage
        Conceal your esteem and love in your own breast, and reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.
    2. To book in advance; to make a reservation for.
      Synonyms: sign up for, register for, schedule, enroll in, book
      I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town. (transitive)
      Thanks for reserving us a room! (ditransitive)
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French reserve, from Old French reserver.

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Noun

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reserve f (plural reserves, diminutive reservetje n)

  1. reserve, emergency supply (that which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use)
  2. military reserves
  3. reservation, restraint
  4. (law, Belgium) forced estate, legitime
    Synonym: voorbehouden deel
    Antonym: beschikbaar deel
  5. (sports) alternate, substitute, reserve

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: reserwe
  • → Indonesian: reserve (“reserve”)
  • >? Javanese: ꦱꦺꦉꦥ꧀ (sèrep, “spare”)

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch reserve, from Old French reserver.

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Noun

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rêsérvê (plural reserve-reserve)

  1. (colloquial) reserve
    Synonyms: cadangan, serap
  2. (colloquial) requirement
    Synonym: syarat

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Via German Reserve from French réserve

Noun

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reserve m (definite singular reserven, indefinite plural reserver, definite plural reservene)

  1. a reserve

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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Via German Reserve from French réserve

Noun

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reserve m (definite singular reserven, indefinite plural reservar, definite plural reservane)

  1. a reserve

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Portuguese

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Verb

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reserve

  1. inflection of reservar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Verb

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reserve

  1. inflection of reservar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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