Reservation Meaning and Definition

Word: Reservation

How to pronounce: rezəˈveɪʃn

Noun

Definitions:

1. The action of reserving something.

Example sentences: "The reservation of positions for non-Americans"

2. A qualification to an expression of agreement or approval; a doubt.

Example sentences: "Some generals voiced reservations about making air strikes"

3. An area of land set aside for occupation by North American Indians or Australian Aboriginal people.

Example sentences: "The boy's family live on a reservation"

4. A right or interest retained in an estate being conveyed.

Example sentences: "The retention of a right to enter the demised property will be a reservation"

5. (in the Roman Catholic Church) the action of a superior of reserving to himself the power of absolution.

Synonyms:

booking

advance reservation

purchase order

proviso

qualification

stipulation

provision

Derivations:

reserving

reserved

reserve

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Reservation in Other Languages...

Spanish: Reserva

German: Reservierung

French: Réservation

Italian: Prenotazione

Turkish: Rezervasyon