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US
/ˌɹɛzɝˈveɪʃən/
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[ UK /ɹˌɛzəvˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɹˌɛzəvˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion
- the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance
- a district that is reserved for particular purpose
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a statement that limits or restricts some claim
he recommended her without any reservations - something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)
- an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly
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the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)
wondered who had made the booking
How To Use reservation In A Sentence
- She is also part of a large group of oceanographers and taphonomists of the SSETI project (Shelf / Slope Taphonomic Initiative) examining carbonate preservation and destruction across the shelf and slope regions in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas using submersibles.
- Have you made the reservations for our holiday yet?
- To make room reservation, please use the attached Form to qualify for special room rate.
- Stahl Real Estate has applied to demolish two early 20th century buildings, but preservationists are firing back, arguing that the 190 rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments, which sit between 64th and 65th streets near York Avenue, have played a vital role housing lower- and middle-class tenants for nearly a century. New Spat Over Upper East Side Rent
- The Bantustans represented an imposed tribalism, with indigenous Africans forcibly displaced onto reservations carved out of the country's poorest land.
- But it is hard to sustain that insistence on the preservation of the Catholic tradition on the one hand with a total insistence on the diminution of a Protestant tradition on the other.
- Prisons overbook for the same reason holiday camps do: to compensate for the inevitable number of detainees who fail to show up for confirmed reservations for one reason or another, or those who escape. Welsh prisons overbooked
- One promising profession that's emerging this century is wildlife preservationist.
- Your Reservation On receipt of your completed booking form and deposit we will reserve your holiday.
- He received his award for service to the preservation and documentation of Australia's naval history and maritime heritage.