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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reserve
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cash reserveformal (= an amount of spare money that you have available to use)
▪ Experts always advise people to build up a cash reserve.
book/reserve a seat
▪ You can book seats online.
book/reserve a table (=in a restaurant)
▪ I've booked a table for four at a local restaurant.
book/reserve a ticket
▪ We booked our tickets well in advance.
game reserve
gas reserves (=a supply of gas kept to be used when it is needed)
▪ Norway has far greater gas reserves than the UK.
nature reserve
reserve judgment (=not decide your opinion before you have all the facts)
▪ Why don't you reserve judgment until you have finished the book?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ The Commission recognises that to achieve this objective it is necessary to reserve certain areas exclusively to the national postal administrations.
judgment
▪ Three appeal court judges reserved judgment.
▪ I think people should reserve judgment.
▪ Professor Furmston said he would reserve judgment until next week.
numbers
▪ The third column, which she had reserved for telephone numbers, was so far entirely blank.
▪ It appears that about 250, 000 holders of 800 numbers will want to reserve 888 numbers, Way said.
place
▪ They pushed and shoved, reaching through the carriage windows to reserve places by laying their scarves along the bench.
▪ If you have not already reserved a place, please do so soon.
▪ Please make the appropriate arrangements to reserve places.
▪ Phone in advance to reserve your place - it cost £10 per day.
right
▪ The editor reserves the right to edit letters.
▪ I save my clients when I can, but I reserve the right of selective salvation.
▪ The Editor reserves the right to abridge letters to suit the space available.
▪ No wonder princes had so long reserved the right to murder with impunity.
▪ The purchaser should reserve the express right to pay the creditors directly out of the retention on behalf of the vendor.
▪ Nevertheless, it is good practice to reserve such rights expressly.
room
▪ The reservation fee is not security for not showing up, it is a payment for reserving the room.
▪ You can reserve a room, too.
▪ He reserved two rooms in the name James Gage and arranged to meet Paula in the dining-room.
▪ A clerk told him the number of his reserved room, and handed a bellboy the key.
▪ The hotel receives a letter from Mr and Mrs Jones who wish to reserve a double room with bath from 7-14 June.
▪ He reserved a room, and said he would be there in about half an hour.
seat
▪ Seat Reservations On all TransPennine services you are advised to reserve your seat in advance to ensure a comfortable journey.
▪ The Fat Controller had reserved good seats at the front of the stalls.
▪ It asked us to reserve our seats as soon as possible for this famous work by Shakespeare.
▪ But none of you has any choice because you all have reserved seats.
▪ Each day her youngsters have to reserve a seat at the table and no prior reservation means no meal.
▪ I must say it was an awful lot of rot, although we had reserved seats ....
space
▪ The idea is to reserve the precious parking spaces that car owners spend hours digging out of the snow.
▪ He had seats for forty thousand, who paid a minimum admission of twenty-five cents but more for reserved space.
table
▪ To reserve a table for £5 call.
▪ That evening he reserved the most popular table at Chez Jacques in their name.
▪ They are shown to their reserved table.
▪ Admission is free and anyone who would like to reserve a table should call.
ticket
▪ Seating for the show is reserved, with tickets priced at $ 14 and $ 16.
use
▪ If reserved for his personal use, it might put him at a certain advantage over his employer.
▪ Until the 1890s, the garden was reserved for the exclusive use of either the monarch or selected courtiers.
▪ It is reserved for use as a children's play area.
▪ When duck is tender, spoon off as much of the extra fat as possible, reserving for another use.
▪ It would therefore appear that the only mechanism for ensuring that land is reserved is by the use of conditions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dougal noticed that her cup was cracked; the best cup was reserved for visitors.
▪ I save my clients when I can, but I reserve the right of selective salvation.
▪ Return reserved onions and eggplant to pan along with all remaining ingredients.
▪ She performed her duties faithfully, reserving to herself the most menial tasks.
▪ To reserve a table for £5 call.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
existing
▪ Better technology should help both to recover more gas from existing reserves and also to make new areas accessible.
▪ The business plan's solution is to transfer existing reserves set against pre-1986 liabilities into a central pot.
▪ Mr Rowland reckons existing reserves for pre-1986 liabilities may total £4 billion-5 billion.
▪ This may come from existing reserves, bank facilities, a rights issue or a cash underwritten alternative.
foreign
▪ By mid-1989 foreign exchange reserves were estimated to be sufficient to cover only two months of imports.
▪ For, in a decade in which internal debt has grown, foreign reserves have fallen.
▪ Billions of pounds have been wiped off share values and removed from foreign exchange reserves this week.
▪ Global surpluses can likewise be meaningless to the dozens of poor nations that have overwhelming demands placed on slim foreign exchange reserves.
▪ Government figures indicated that total foreign exchange reserves stood at only US$14,750,000.
▪ Growth this year is estimated at 4 %, and exports and foreign currency reserves are up.
▪ Inflation and unemployment are up; foreign reserves, fuel supplies and political trust are down.
gold
▪ The Soviet Union's gold reserves were named as support.
▪ So the insufficiency of gold reserves resulted from higher volume of trade, not higher prices.
great
▪ These statements must be treated with great reserve.
▪ The coal and petroleum are the great reserves of fossil fuels that we have relied on to power our industrial societies.
▪ When that goes, he hasn't great reserves of fitness with which to compensate.
▪ Dulles held that the United States should counter that strategy by maintaining a great strategic reserve in the United States.
▪ It has large reserves and is now backed by the great reserves of Hong Kong.
▪ Our family always was known for its great reserve.
▪ First of all, of course, great reserves of strength and stamina.
▪ Still, Lawrence delivers the entire program with great reserves of power and an extraordinary sense of legato.
large
▪ The latter are all part of large conglomerates with large reserves which can be employed to see the industry through the recession.
▪ Sunnyvale was starting with large reserves, and its total budget was only $ 125 million.
▪ It has large reserves and is now backed by the great reserves of Hong Kong.
▪ Some units will be maintained at full strength; others will rely on large numbers of reserves.
▪ In fact, there are indications that the Louisiana leg may contain larger reserves than the western leg in Texas.
▪ Effective deployment of the larger reserves which this system made available required intricate staff work.
national
▪ The 325-acre fen, headwaters of the Waveney river, will be designated a national nature reserve.
▪ The drought has already set one project, a national food reserve, back by at least a year.
▪ Of seven national reserves, four are suffering continual damage: 1.
▪ The southern tip is designated as a national nature reserve.
natural
▪ It said it will use the net proceeds to acquire long-life natural gas reserves and exploit development opportunities.
▪ He had an innocent manner about him too, and he had made her feel at ease despite her natural reserve.
▪ His uncertainty with strangers is nothing like Juanita's, more the island child's natural reserve.
▪ Kumana is a natural water reserve.
official
▪ Therefore, managed floating does not have the advantage of making redundant the holding of official reserves.
▪ Sixty percent of official reserves and 50 percent of private reserves are currently held in dollars.
▪ Figures showing a fall last month in official reserves did not dent market sentiment.
▪ In the 1950s about three-fifths of total gold production found its way into official reserves.
▪ The official reserve itself is also vulnerable to changes in exchange rate, which compounds the problem of ensuring adequate reserves.
proven
▪ The equivalent statistical probabilities for the proven component of proven and probable reserves are 90 percent and 10 percent respectively.
▪ The company said proven reserves were worth Ir20p per share.
■ NOUN
cash
▪ Experts' advice Investment: Build up a cash reserve and then use both Isa allowances to invest in equities.
▪ That could be problematic for the bull market, with fund managers' cash reserves already at 20-year lows.&038;.
▪ On the other hand, cash reserves do not earn any return for the bank.
▪ State auditors and financial experts have criticized the school district for having low cash reserves.
▪ Whatever your aims, building up a cash reserve for the future always makes sense.
▪ As explained above, the commercial banks' cash reserves are reduced so that they may recall their loans from the discount houses.
▪ Gold and cash reserves fell by around £2 billion as a result of the sterling crisis.
currency
▪ But even as the country's gold and currency reserves continued to drain away, worse was to come.
▪ Danzig's already depleted currency reserves dropped steadily.
▪ Growth this year is estimated at 4 %, and exports and foreign currency reserves are up.
▪ Foreign currency reserves had plunged to some US$2,300 million in early March, barely enough to cover three weeks' imports.
exchange
▪ By mid-1989 foreign exchange reserves were estimated to be sufficient to cover only two months of imports.
▪ Global surpluses can likewise be meaningless to the dozens of poor nations that have overwhelming demands placed on slim foreign exchange reserves.
▪ Billions of pounds have been wiped off share values and removed from foreign exchange reserves this week.
▪ In February 1994 it had $ 30 billion in exchange reserves.
▪ Government figures indicated that total foreign exchange reserves stood at only US$14,750,000.
▪ According to the first figures available, it is estimated that the national bank's exchange reserves equal a month's imports.
gas
▪ The Caspian basin, which is rich in oil and gas reserves, is central to his new foreign policy doctrine.
▪ It said it will use the net proceeds to acquire long-life natural gas reserves and exploit development opportunities.
▪ Chesapeake believes there are substantial oil and gas reserves in this eastern leg of the geological formation known as the Austin chalk.
nature
▪ Julie was cut down beneath a nearby tree on the beautiful nature reserve 220 miles north of Durban.
▪ Care would be taken not to harm the environment in the nature reserve there, which was designated a world heritage area.
▪ It is a nature reserve, with not a single permanent human inhabitant.
▪ There are about 150,000 acres of natural space left, but only 50,000 acres are protected by a nature reserve.
▪ Also with us was Jim McGeoch, naturalist and official warden for the latter nature reserve.
▪ The area is now a nature reserve.
▪ The local borough has proposed that the wood should be declared a local nature reserve.
oil
▪ Known oil reserves are enough to last for 40 years, natural gas for over 65 years and coal for 250 years.
▪ Many other countries of the world that are deficient in oil reserves have coal and natural gas.
▪ As oil reserves are depleted, its price will continue to rise.
▪ But as oil reserves dwindled over the past decade, local school property taxes doubled to help make up the difference.
▪ Two-thirds of the worlds oil reserves still sleep quietly beneath the soil of Mecca.
▪ Estimates of world oil reserves have increased steadily since the 1970s, more than doubling by some calculations.
wildlife
▪ The impressive wildlife reserve of the Algonquin Provincial Park is a stunning array of native animals in the wild.
▪ Many wildlife reserves and parks are too dangerous for park rangers, let alone tourists.
■ VERB
build
▪ Experts' advice Investment: Build up a cash reserve and then use both Isa allowances to invest in equities.
▪ On mild autumn days, pond fish will be feeding enthusiastically, building up their fat reserves.
call
▪ Certainly he wasted no time in calling up his reserves.
▪ They, too, had needed to call on reserves of willpower and self-discipline.
▪ This calls for immense reserves of patience and tact.
▪ But Jackson soon had to call up his reserves.
dip
▪ The center already has dipped into its reserves and anticipates borrowing heavily from the city.
draw
▪ Many counties had drawn on their reserves to keep rate increases down in their own election year of 1989.
▪ As a team we had barely begun to draw upon our reserves of mutual tolerance and respect.
establish
▪ Drilling will establish whether reserves of 1m ounces can be increased.
▪ Another condition requires Harvard to establish a reserve account to make sure that the insurer can pay outstanding medical bills.
estimate
▪ Mr Mayo estimates that loan loss reserves will have to be increased by a third, assuming an economic soft landing.
▪ In March 1988 Glencar announced that it had found deposits of gold, estimating the reserves at £300 million.
hold
▪ Today, however, the Sun must be wishing that it had held that headline in reserve.
▪ Elements of mechanized battalions were held in reserve, kind of like the cavalry.
▪ It chose not to register that profit on the balance sheet and hold the earnings in reserve for future years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Later, Darcy drops his reserve and confesses that he loves her.
▪ The country has foreign currency reserves of $83 billion.
▪ They sold half the wood and kept the rest in reserve for winter.
▪ We had to rely on our emergency reserve of food while we were snowed in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As well as its own peat-cutting operations, the company is also encouraging local farmers to use mechanical excavators to exploit their own reserves.
▪ Basic banks are obliged to maintain certain reserves, which consist of cash in hand and deposits at the National Bank.
▪ I wanted to reach into my inner reserve and call up the power to heal.
▪ In March 1971 central banks agreed to freeze the deposit of reserves on the Euromarkets.
▪ Remove with slotted spoon and reserve in a small bowl.
▪ The Victorian era comes down to us today mired in images of distance and reserve.
▪ These are both very liquid and interest-earning assets and thus provide a valuable second line of reserves.
▪ They decided to launch an as-sault after the bombardment, with my platoon in reserve.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
reserve

Resist \Re*sist"\, n.

  1. (Calico Printing) A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers; -- also called reserve. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes.
    --F. C. Calvert.

  2. (Technology) Something that resists or prevents a certain action; specif.: A substance applied to a surface, as of metal, or of a silicon wafer, to prevent the action on it of acid, other chemical agents, or any other process such as irradiation or deposition, which would modify the surface if not protected. The resist is usually applied or in some way formed into a pattern so that the underlying surface may be modified in a complementary pattern.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reserve

mid-14c., from Old French reserver "set aside, withhold" (12c.) and directly from Latin reservare "keep back, save up; retain, preserve," from re- "back" (see re-) + servare "to keep, save, preserve, protect" (see observe). Meaning "to book" is from 1935. Related: Reserved; reserving.

reserve

"something stored up," 1610s, from reserve (v.) or from French réserve, a Middle French back-formation from reserver. Meaning "self-imposed restraint on freedom of words or actions; habit of keeping back the feelings" is from 1650s.

Wiktionary
reserve

n. 1 (label en behaviour) restriction. 2 # The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation; exception. 3 # restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. 4 That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use. 5 # A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited. vb. 1 To keep back; to retain. 2 To keep in store for future or special use. 3 To book in advance; to make a reservation. 4 (context obsolete English) To make an exception of; to except.

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WordNet
reserve

  1. n. formality and propriety of manner [syn: modesty]

  2. something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose [syn: backlog, stockpile]

  3. an athlete who plays only when another member of the team drops out [syn: substitute]

  4. (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions

  5. a district that is reserved for particular purpose [syn: reservation]

  6. armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency [syn: military reserve]

  7. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary [syn: reticence, taciturnity]

reserve

  1. adj. not engaged in military action [syn: inactive, reserve(a)]

  2. kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts" [syn: reserve(a), spare]

reserve

  1. v. hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency; "they held back their applause in anticipation"

  2. give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research" [syn: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside]

  3. obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance; "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's"

  4. arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's" [syn: hold, book]

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Gazetteer
Reserve, WI -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 436
Housing Units (2000): 252
Land area (2000): 53.009057 sq. miles (137.292821 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.698415 sq. miles (1.808887 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 53.707472 sq. miles (139.101708 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67050
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 45.859877 N, 91.372722 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Reserve, WI
Reserve
Reserve, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
Population (2000): 37
Housing Units (2000): 25
Land area (2000): 1.375721 sq. miles (3.563101 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.375721 sq. miles (3.563101 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62125
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 48.605251 N, 104.463969 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59258
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Reserve, MT
Reserve
Reserve, NM -- U.S. village in New Mexico
Population (2000): 387
Housing Units (2000): 238
Land area (2000): 0.555844 sq. miles (1.439628 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.555844 sq. miles (1.439628 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62620
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 33.708493 N, 108.760822 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 87830
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Reserve, NM
Reserve
Reserve, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 100
Housing Units (2000): 60
Land area (2000): 0.110424 sq. miles (0.285998 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.110424 sq. miles (0.285998 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59050
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.976378 N, 95.564464 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66434
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Reserve, KS
Reserve
Reserve, LA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Louisiana
Population (2000): 9111
Housing Units (2000): 3385
Land area (2000): 16.067055 sq. miles (41.613480 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.050370 sq. miles (2.720446 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 17.117425 sq. miles (44.333926 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64310
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 30.062566 N, 90.553296 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 70084
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Reserve, LA
Reserve
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Wikipedia
Reserve

Reserve or reserves may refer to:

Reserve (accounting)

In financial accounting, reserve is any part of shareholders' equity, except for basic share capital. In nonprofit accounting, an "operating reserve" is the unrestricted cash on hand available to sustain an organization, and nonprofit boards usually specify a target of maintaining several months of operating cash or a percentage of their annual income, called an Operating Reserve Ratio.

There are different types of reserves used in financial accounting like capital reserves, revenue reserves,statutory reserves, realized reserves, unrealized reserves.

Equity reserves are created from several possible sources:

  • Reserves created from shareholders' contributions, the most common examples of which are:

:*legal reserve fund - it is required in many legislations and it must be paid as a percentage of share capital

:* share premium - amount paid by shareholders for shares in excess of their nominal value

  • Reserves created# from profit, especially retained earnings, i.e. accumulated accounting profits, or in the case of nonprofits, operating surpluses. However, profits may be distributed also to other types of reserves, for example:

:*legal reserve fund from profit - many legislations require creation of the fund as a percentage of profits

:*remuneration reserve - will be used later to pay bonuses to employees or management.

:*translation reserve - arises during consolidation of entities with different reporting currencies

Reserve is the profit achieved by a company where a certain amount of it is put back into the business which can help the business in their rainy days.

Sometimes reserve is used in the sense of provision. This is inconsistent with the terminology suggested by International Accounting Standards Board. For more information about provisions, see provision (accounting).

Reserve (territorial entity)

Reserve is a term of art for some administrative territorial entities and may refer to:

  • Biosphere reserve
  • Game reserve, land set aside for maintenance of wildlife for tourism or hunting
  • Indian reserve, in Canada, a tract of land reserved for the use and benefit of a band
    • Indian reservation, an equivalent concept in the United States
  • Nature reserve, a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest
  • Open space reserve, an area of protected or conserved land or water on which development is indefinitely set aside
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Usage examples of "reserve".

But somehow, no one bothered to explicitly consult Andersen accountants about the reserve agreement.

Another reason was, the French inhabitants being very loyal to the crown, of very simple habits, and possessing institutions to which they were attached, it was advisable that means for maintaining those institutions should be reserved to them.

And Alleluia, shy, reserved and scholarly, owning a voice that was no more than pretty, and hopeless at managing people.

These victorious Saracens enjoyed at Damascus a month of pleasure and repose: the spoil was divided by the discretion of Abu Obeidah: an equal share was allotted to a soldier and to his horse, and a double portion was reserved for the noble coursers of the Arabian breed.

Ada wished there were a way to capture what she was hearing in the way an ambrotype captures images, so it could be held in reserve for the benefit of a future whose residents might again need access to what it stood for.

Philippine Legislature shall be reported to the Congress of the United States, which hereby reserves the power and authority to annul the same.

The father reserved to himself a revenue of one hundred thousand pistoles per annum, retired to the castle of Chamberry, and espoused the countess dowager of St.

And although he may give his answer at once, and at once proceed to issue his apostils if he is very expert and experienced, yet it is better to act with caution, and fix a term of ten or twenty or twenty-five days, reserving to himself the right to prorogue the hearing of the appeal up to the legal limit of time.

Tomorrow I shall reserve a compartment on the Flyer arriving Kensington at 5:00 p.

The Abbess was so well disposed that she invited him to have a cup of the celebrated aromatic chocolate of the Clarissans, with the anisette biscuits and confectionary miracles reserved for the elect.

The theory of persecution was established by Theodosius, whose justice and piety have been applauded by the saints: but the practice of it, in the fullest extent, was reserved for his rival and colleague, Maximus, the first, among the Christian princes, who shed the blood of his Christian subjects on account of their religious opinions.

I shall publicly exculpate this government from the imputation of assenting to such a procedure, and shall reserve it as an objection to any future engagements with him when the present service shall have been accomplished.

The government of a mighty empire may assuredly suffice to occupy the time, and the abilities, of a mortal: yet the diligent prince, without aspiring to the unsuitable reputation of profound learning, always reserved some moments of his leisure for the instructive amusement of reading.

It may be added that, as being himself a blunt and downright Englishman, unaccustomed to conceal the slightest movement either of love or of dislike, he accounted the fair-spoken courtesy which the Scots had learned, either from imitation of their frequent allies, the French, or which might have arisen from their own proud and reserved character, as a false and astucious mark of the most dangerous designs against their neighbours, over whom he believed, with genuine English confidence, they could, by fair manhood, never obtain any advantage.

He was a foot baller played for Mother well, in the reserves mostly, unless they had a lot of injuries.