reservation | |
1. n. The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back. | |
2. n. The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick. | |
3. n. The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices. | |
4. n. Something that is withheld or kept back. | |
5. n. (often, plural) A limiting qualification; a doubt. | |
I have reservations about your intentions. | |
6. n. (US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve). | |
7. n. An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance. | |
8. n. (UK) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway. | |
9. n. (India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe). | |