reserve

1 :  to arrange to have set aside and held for someone's use I called to reserve a hotel room.

2 :  to keep in store for special use She believed that Sundays should be reserved for family activities. — Carl Hiaasen, Hoot

3 :  to keep from using until a future time We need to reserve our strength.

4 :  to hold over to a future time or place Reserve judgment until you know the facts.

1 reserves plural :  military forces held back or available for later use

2 :  an area of land set apart a nature reserve

3 :  caution in words and behavior

4 :  something stored for future use oil reserves

5 :  an act of setting something aside for future use

1:  something stored or kept available for future use or need oxygen reserve—see cardiac reserve

2:  the capacity of a solution to neutralize alkali or acid when its reaction is shifted from one hydrogen-ion concentration to another; especially :  the capacity of blood or bacteriological media to react with acid or alkali within predetermined and usually physiological limits of hydrogen-ion concentration—compare buffer, buffer solution

:  constituting or having the form or function of a reserve a reserve supply reserve strength

:  to keep back or set apart: as a :  to keep (a right, power, or interest) especially by express declaration all rights reserved — compare waive b :  to defer a determination of (a question of law) the justices reserved the question because it was not an issue in the case

1 :  something stored or kept available for future use an energy company with various unproven oil reserves

2 :  an act of reserving

3 :  money kept in a separate account to meet future liabilities legal reserve :  the minimum amount as determined by government standards of the deposits held by a bank or of the assets of a life insurance company required by law to be kept as reserves loss reserve 1 :  a reserve allocated by a bank for the purpose of absorbing losses a loan loss reserve 2 :  an insurance company's reserve representing the discounted value of future payments to be made on losses which may have already occurred policy reserve :  an insurance company's reserve representing the difference in value between the net premiums and assumed claims for a given year in life insurance unearned premium reserve :  a reserve of funds which represents premiums paid to an insurance company but not yet applied to policy coverage and from which a policyholder is paid a refund in the event of cancellation prior to the period for which premiums have been paid

4 :  reserve price