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Noun: reservation  ,re-zu(r)'vey-shun
  1. A district that is reserved for particular purpose
    - reserve
     
  2. A statement that limits or restricts some claim
    "he recommended her without any reservations";
    - qualification, caveat
     
  3. An unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly
    - mental reservation, arrière pensée
     
  4. The act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)
    "wondered who had made the reservation";
    - booking
     
  5. The written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance
     
  6. Something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)
     
  7. The act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion

Derived forms: reservations

Type of: administrative district, administrative division, agreement, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, employment, engagement, incertitude, prearrangement, preservation, saving, statement, territorial division, uncertainty, understanding

Encyclopedia: Reservation