The act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion

Usage examples of reservation.

If the sacerdotal laws allowed the reservation of judgments and the allegory of words, I would accept the proposed dignity on condition that I might be a philosopher at home, and abroad a narrator of apologues and parables.

The clients of Battue must sign waivers before their reservations are confirmed and provide proof of their skill with weapons.

Each time I asked first for Mrs, Brassard, then asked if she had a reservation there.

Ute reservation, then roared into New Mexico and across the mesa high above Malpais Arroyo.

Jicarilla Reservation about where the body of the so-called Carl Mankin had been found.

Enough to keep the herd going given climate changes or whatever, not so many they could overbreed or wander off the reservation, but the population drops rapidly.

Wrapped in brown paper or in a parfleche, stashed in a trunk, forgotten in a closet in one of the little houses scattered about the reservation.

Sanchez, the ancient widow who was rumored to have murdered her husband in a dust storm sixty-two years before, the Perell twins who -- for unknown reasons -- preferred the old run-down church to the spotless and air-conditioned company chapel on the mining reservation, and the mysterious old man with the radiation-scarred face who knelt in the rearmost pew and never took Communion.

You will find a high chaparral of pinyon and scrub oak as far east as the reservation line.

Lisa had reservations about the refund policy--it seemed to her to be more about business than medicine.

But these truman sacrilegists have confessed to the Inquisition that they did in fact render aid to premen demonists in flight from the reservation.

Warren Slavens drew claim number one, which entitled him to first choice of rich lands on an Indian reservation in Wyoming.

Christmas reservations, and with whoops of delight by snowboarders Kent Slakken and Bodine Cromps.

That rich sunstone strike on the Fuzzy Reservation has been leased back to the CZC, who are paying a royalty of four hundred fifty sols per carat for the privilege of working the diggings.

Constance, Frederic subscribed, with some reservations, the freedom of four-and-twenty cities.