reserve: significado e definições

To keep back, as for future use or for a special purpose.

To set or cause to be set apart for a particular person or use. See Synonyms at book.

To keep or secure for oneself; retain: I reserve the right to disagree. See Synonyms at keep.

Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose.

The act of reserving.

The keeping of one's feelings, thoughts, or affairs to oneself.

Self-restraint in expression; reticence: "One feels it everywhere, a quality of reserve, something held back” ( Rollene W. Saal).

Lack of enthusiasm; skeptical caution.

An amount of capital held back from investment in order to meet probable or possible demands.

A reservation of public land: a forest reserve.

An amount of a mineral, fossil fuel, or other resource known to exist in a particular location and to be exploitable: the discovery of large oil reserves.

A fighting force kept uncommitted until strategic need arises. Often used in the plural.

The part of a country's armed forces not on active duty but subject to call in an emergency.

Held in or forming a reserve: a reserve supply of food.

in reserve Kept back, set aside, or saved.