reservation
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Definitions ofreservation
- The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
Example: "The committee authorised the reservation of funds."
- Something that is withheld or kept back.
- (often in the plural) A limiting qualification; a doubt.
Example: "I have reservations about your intentions."
- A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
- An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
Example: "I have a hotel reservation in the name of Mr Smith."
- The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.
Example: "A vehicle crashed through the central reservation into the path of oncoming traffic."
- 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).
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