Usually means: Withholding truth without outright lying.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. mental reservation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. mental reservation: Collins English Dictionary
  3. mental reservation: Vocabulary.com
  4. mental reservation: Wordnik
  5. mental reservation: Wiktionary
  6. mental reservation: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Mental reservation, mental reservation: Dictionary.com
  8. Mental Reservation (album), Mental reservation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. mental reservation: Rhymezone
  10. mental reservation: FreeDictionary.org
  11. mental reservation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. mental reservation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mental reservation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mental reservation: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mental Reservation: Catholic Encyclopedia

(Note: See mental_reservations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mental reservation)

noun:  The act of holding back some word or clause which is necessary to convey fully the meaning really intended by the speaker, distinct from equivocation.

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