01 n. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
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Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
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A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.[U.S.]
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The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
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A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.(Law)
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The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.(Eccl.)
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an agreement to have some space, service or other acommodation, as at a hotel, a restaurant, or on a public transport system, held for one's future use; also, the record or receipt for such an agreement, or the contractual obligation to retain that accommodation; as, a hotel reservation; a reservation on a flight to Dallas; to book a reservation at the Ritz.
Phrases & compounds
Mental reservation —
the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.