Noun | 1. | reservation - a district that is reserved for particular purpose Synonyms: reserve |
2. | reservation - a statement that limits or restricts some claim; "he recommended her without any reservations" Synonyms: qualification | |
3. | reservation - an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly Synonyms: arriere pensee, mental reservation | |
4. | reservation - the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made the booking" Synonyms: booking | |
5. | reservation - the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance | |
6. | reservation - something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.) | |
7. | reservation - the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion |
RESERVATION, contracts. That part of a deed or other instrument which reserves a thing not in esse at the time of the grant, but newly created. 2 Hill. Ab. 359; 3 Pick. R. 272; It differs from an exception. (q.v.) See 4 Vern. 622; Brayt. R. 230; 9 John. R. 73; 20 John, R. 87; 3 Ridg. P. C. 402; Co. Litt. 43 a; 2 Tho Co. Litt. 412
Indian reservation, allowance, appointment, archives, area, arrangement, bank, bespeaking, bird sanctuary, booking, briefing, cession, circumscription, concession, condition, demur, demurral, demurrer, employment, engagement, exception, exemption, extenuating circumstances, forest preserve, game reserve, grain of salt, grant, hedge, hedging, hesitancy, hesitation, hiring, holding back, library, mental reservation, modification, museum, national forest, national park, paradise, park, plot, preengagement, preserve, provision, proviso, qualification, qualm, region, reluctance, reserve, retainment, reticence, salvo, sanctuary, scruple, section, special case, special treatment, specialness, specification, state forest, stipulation, store, string, strings, taking on, term, terms, territory, tract, waiver, wilderness preserve, wildlife preserve, withholding