reserve

CEFRB1

/ɹɪˈzɝv/

verb · noun

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A restriction., Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.

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It would help us if you would reserve the following hotel during our conference.
I accept your view with one reserve.
New oil reserves are continuously being discovered, but not as fast as the existing ones are running out.

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If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.
2014 April 25, Martin Lukacs, “Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 190, number 20, page 13
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.
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
Each is decorated with a simple disk in reserve and a band in reserve adorned with white dots.
1973, Charles Kyrle Wilkinson, Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period, New York, N.Y: Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 161

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