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Answer for the clue "The act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group) ", 11 letters:
reservation

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Reservation may refer to: Indian reservation , in the United States Indian reserve , in Canada Indigenous Territory , in Brazil Indigenous Territory , in Bolivia Indigenous Territory , in Colombia Indigenous Territory , in Costa Rica Reservation (law) , ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "act of reserving," from Old French reservation (14c.) and directly from Late Latin reservationem (nominative reservatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin reservare (see reserve (n.)). Mental sense is from c.1600. U.S. sense ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reservation \Res`er*va"tion\ (r?z`?r-v?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]servation, LL. reservatio. See Reserve .] The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. --A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back. 2 Something that is withheld or kept back. 3 A limiting qualification (often used in the plural). 4 (context US English) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American ...

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.