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reserve English

Meaning reserve meaning

What does reserve mean?
Definitions in simple English

reserve Verb

— If you reserve a room, a table, seat etc. you arrange for it to be kept for you, usually for a particular date and time. This parking spot is reserved for the general manager. We had reserved a room at the hotel. — When you're cooking, if you reserve something, you put it aside to use later. Cook pasta as directed on package and reserve 1/4 cup of pasta cooking water. — If you reserve something for a particular situation, you usually don't use it except in that situation. She spoke to me in a voice usually reserved for young children. — If you reserve the right to do something, you let people know that these are your legal rights and you may use or defend them. This program is copyrighted © 2008 by CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

reserve Noun

— Reserves are extra amounts of something that are for the future. Canada has 179 billion barrels of oil reserves - second only to Saudi Arabia. The central bank's cash and gold reserves have fallen by 25 percent since June 2001. This special sugar is your body's quick, easy-access energy reserve. She always had some water in reserve. — Reserve is a feeling of holding back, controlling yourself, and not being very friendly. We listened to all this talk about change with a certain reserve. — Reserves are extra players on a team, or fighters in an army in case somebody is hurt or needs a rest. Their best player spent a season on injured reserve after hurting his knee. She joined the Army Reserve during her time in university. — A reserve is an area of land or water that is protected from humans. These lands (such as national parks and nature reserves) supply cities with clean drinking water. — A reserve (or reservation) is an area of land that belongs to a group of indigenous people, such as a First Nations group in Canada.

reserve

— verb hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency they held back their applause in anticipation — verb (= earmark, set aside) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause I will earmark this money for your research She sets aside time for meditation every day — noun (= modesty) formality and propriety of manner — noun something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose — verb obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's — noun (= substitute) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced — noun (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions — noun the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary — verb (= hold, book) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance reserve me a seat on a flight The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family please hold a table at Maxim's — noun a district that is reserved for particular purpose — noun (= military reserve) armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency

Synonyms reserve synonyms

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reserve English » English

book stock store save spare preserve supply stockpile keep order reservation set aside hold retain backlog restraint reticence keep back appropriate sanctuary reserves modesty margin hoard earmark conserve backup withhold supplies store up storage reservoir reserve price proviso provision preparation maintain inventory fund economize allow taciturnity substitute subscribe shyness set apart self-restraint select second-stringer savings

Topics reserve topics

What do people use reserve to talk about?
Social behavior Relationships Disunity

Set self apart
Social behavior Behavior

Self-controlled
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Things done to animals
Physical actions Arrange Gather

Separate, scatter

Conjugation reserve conjugation

How do you conjugate reserve?

reserve · verb

Examples reserve examples

How do I use reserve in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I'd like to reserve a table for three.
Did you reserve a room at the hotel?
I'd like to reserve a flight to Vancouver.
Let's reserve that for another occasion.
I'd like to reserve a single room.
I'd like to reserve a seat on this train.
I'd like to reserve a single room on June 3.
I'd like to reserve a seat.
My father said he would reserve a day to take me to the zoo.
The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates.
The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark discount rate to an 18-year low.
Would you please reserve a room near the Toronto international Airport?
Can I reserve a flight to Chicago?
Please reserve this table for us.
I'd like to reserve a table for four at six.
I'd like to reserve a table for two.
I'd like to reserve a private compartment.

Movie subtitles

Oh, Mr. Hammer. Mrs. Thompson wants to know. if you'd reserve a table for dinner for her in a nice quiet spot.
I'm going to reserve a cabin for you, Helen, in case you change your mind.
After all, I must maintain my reserve.
You and your reserve.
I can manage to get your reserve petrol.
Uh, please reserve two places for lunch, will you?
We reserve these for emergencies.
I shall reserve my opinion until I knew the circumstances of that particular case.
Larry, let's decide, you and I, that between us there shall be no more such reserve.
Book a passage and reserve the bridal suite.
Ground command will send the reserve battalion in a flanking movement through this gap.
I should like Vinicius and his little flower held in reserve.
Ricardo's raffle was our reserve.
I reserve that privilege.
My best reserve troupes.
The law demands that I carry a certain legal reserve, and I do.
Send down to the vaults. Have our reserve cash sent up.
I reserve the privilege of choosing my friends.
Please reserve two places for lunch, if you'd care to join me.
Reserve rations. You never know.
I didn't reserve a table and order flowers just to look at your face.
The reserve company I asked for a week ago has just come in.
With a load of 2 million dollars in gold from the Federal Reserve Bank.
No, keep the preserves in reserve.
Reserve a box for me at the Alhambra for tonight.
Mrs. Thompson wants to know. if you'd reserve a table for dinner for her in a nice quiet spot.
Did you reserve a cabin or the whole ship? - One cabin.
Four good ships in the air two in reserve, then you got a real airline.
Hidden from the outside world by seven veils, veils of reserve, shyness, fear, they're with friends.
You asked me to reserve rooms.
Darling, did you reserve a table?
I'll reserve comment on the neatness, sir, but it is little.
When the leading elements have cleared the German wires, the second wave, consisting of the Second and Third Battalions minus two companies in reserve, will move out.
Well, the federal reserve bank is the only place that can handle a thing like this. It's Henderson's ball now.
Will you take your places, please, girls? The money's on your desks. Just separate them into the 12 federal reserve districts.
Anything that breaks through will be handled by the reserve.
Why not show some reserve? No loss!

News and current affairs

Last winter, America's central bank - the Federal Reserve - was busy patting itself on the back.
Yet throughout all this, the Federal Reserve remained passive.
While the US Federal Reserve Board's first round of quantitative easing was effective in ending a wrenching crisis, the second round has done little to sustain meaningful recovery in the labor market and the real economy.
But what is one to make of the criticisms of Greenspan's tenure at the Federal Reserve?
The US Federal Reserve will carry out more quantitative easing this year, but it will be ineffective: long-term interest rates are already very low, and lowering them further would not boost spending.
The dollar remains the world's reserve currency, and investors' scramble into US government debt at every peak in the crisis since 2008 has underscored America's safe-haven status (even in crises that America caused).
Or the US Federal Reserve, the Peoples Bank of China (PBC), or both - or even some other body - could support the market.
Why should the Federal Reserve allow long-term interest rates to spike just because other central banks have ceased their dollar-purchase programs?
We have heard Texas Governor Rick Perry call obliquely for the lynching of his fellow Republican, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, should he come to the Lone Star State.
The US Federal Reserve has, in my judgment, responded appropriately by reducing the federal funds interest rate sharply and creating a variety of new credit facilities.
The alternative, as China has suggested, would be to develop a new reserve currency.
And the dollar could still remain the preferred reserve currency, provided it is prudently managed.
If negative trends continue, Russia's reserve fund could eventually be exhausted.
Use of America's vast strategic oil reserve will dampen world oil prices for a time, but when all is said and done, once hostilities with Iraq start, oil prices will shoot up.
It would seem that rebuilding confidence in the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission is economically more important than rebuilding trust in Citibank or AIG.
SANTA BARBARA - The Chinese government's campaign to have its currency, the renminbi, included in the International Monetary Fund's reserve asset appears to be on the brink of success.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve's unusual activism, including an ever-expanding list of experimental measures, will yield fewer benefits and entail growing costs and risks.
Indeed, the operations of those parts of the financial system most closely related to technological improvements have slimmed down markedly: consider what has happened to the checking operations of the regional Federal Reserve Banks.
But such low rates do not reflect ordinary market sentiment; rather, they stem from the fact that the Federal Reserve is now buying more long-term securities than the government is issuing to finance the budget deficit.
That is both logical and rational - and thus not something that the US Federal Reserve can offset with unconventional monetary easing.
At least it's a recovery, they claim, and a sign of healing that can be attributed mainly to the heroic, unconventional efforts of the US Federal Reserve.
But we shouldn't allow American politicians who do not even possess passports to write us off with the same patronizing sneer that some Europeans used to reserve for President George W. Bush's administration and policies.
Most importantly, China's call for the introduction of a new reserve currency stems from its frustration with the failure of major governments - whether in the US or Europe - to govern their economic affairs with realism and good sense.
On the other side was the Chinese solution, with increasingly costly reserve management giving way to activist sovereign wealth funds looking for strategic participation in investments abroad.
My proposal is to create a physical stockpile of LEU at the disposal of the IAEA as a last-resort reserve for countries with nuclear power programs that face a supply disruption for non-commercial reasons.

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