reservations
Meaning
plural of reservation
reservation
- (countable, uncountable) The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- (countable, uncountable) Something that is withheld or kept back.
- (countable, in-plural, often, uncountable) A limiting qualification regarding certainty or risk; a doubt or concern.
- (US, countable, uncountable) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people, such as the Hopi Reservation or the Navajo Nation's territory.
- (countable, uncountable) An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
- (UK, countable, uncountable) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway.
- (India, countable, uncountable) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
- (countable, uncountable) A power of an overseeing authority to suspend legislation in the jurisdiction being overseen pending the approval of a higher authority. Such as a provincial/state governor reserving a bill passed by the state/provincial legislature from assent, pending approval of the federal government; or a federal bill passed by federal parliament being reserved by the viceroy pending approval by the crown.
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