noun The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
The committee authorised the reservation of funds.
noun The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
noun The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
noun Something that is withheld or kept back.
noun A limiting qualification regarding certainty or risk; a doubt or concern.
I have reservations about your intentions.
noun A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people, such as the Hopi Reservation or the Navajo Nation's territory.
noun An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
I have a hotel reservation in the name of Mr Smith.
noun The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway.
A vehicle crashed through the central reservation into the path of oncoming traffic.