Dictionary
re-serve
Pronunciation: (rē-sûrv'), [key]—
v.t., v.i., -served, -serv•ing.
to serve again.
re•serve
Pronunciation: (ri-zûrv'), [key]
—v., -served, -serv•ing,
—n., adj.
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v.t.
1. to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
2. to retain or secure by express stipulation.
3. to set apart for a particular use, purpose, service, etc.:
ground reserved for gardening.
4. to keep for oneself.
5. to retain (the original color) of a surface, as on a painted ceramic piece.
6. to save or set aside (a portion of the Eucharistic elements) to be administered, as to the sick, outside of the Mass or communion service.
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n.
1. Finance.
a. cash, or assets readily convertible into cash, held aside, as by a corporation, bank, state or national government, etc., to meet expected or unexpected demands.
b. uninvested cash held to comply with legal requirements.
2. something kept or stored for use or need; stock:
a reserve of food.
3. a resource not normally called upon but available if needed.
4. a tract of public land set apart for a special purpose:
a forest reserve.
5. an act of reserving; reservation, exception, or qualification:
I will do what you ask, but with one reserve.
6. Mil.
a. a fraction of a military force held in readiness to sustain the attack or defense made by the rest of the force.
b. the part of a country's fighting force not in active service.
c. reserves,the enrolled but not regular components of the U.S. Army.
7. formality and self-restraint in manner and relationship; avoidance of familiarity or intimacy with others:
to conduct oneself with reserve.
8. reticence or silence.
9. in reserve, put aside or withheld for a future need; reserved:
money in reserve.
10. without reserve,
a. without restraint; frankly; freely.
b. (of articles at auction) without limitation as to the terms of sale, esp. with no stipulated minimum price.
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adj.
1. kept in reserve; forming a reserve:
a reserve fund; a reserve supply.
2. of or pertaining to the animal awarded second place in livestock shows:
the reserve champion steer. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
