Usually means: Setting aside resources for later.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word reserving:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. reserving: Merriam-Webster
  2. reserving: Vocabulary.com
  3. Reserving, reserving: Wordnik
  4. reserving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. reserving: Wiktionary
  6. reserving: Dictionary.com
  7. reserving: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Reserving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Reserving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. reserving: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. reserving: FreeDictionary.org
  12. reserving: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. reserving: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. reserving: Legal dictionary
  3. reserving: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reserving: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reserving: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reserving: Idioms

(Note: See reserve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Reserve)

noun:  A restriction.
noun:  The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
noun:  Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
noun:  That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
noun:  A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
noun:  A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
noun:  (Canada) A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.)
noun:  (military) A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
noun:  (finance, insurance) Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
noun:  A reserve price in an auction.
noun:  Wine held back and aged before being sold.
noun:  (ceramics) Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
noun:  Something initially kept back for later use in recreation.
noun:  (sports) A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
noun:  (card games) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
noun:  In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
noun:  (calico printing) A resist.
noun:  A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
verb:  To keep back; to retain.
verb:  To keep in store for future or special use.
verb:  To book in advance; to make a reservation.
verb:  (obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.
noun:  A city in Kansas.
noun:  A census-designated place in Louisiana.
noun:  A census-designated place in Montana.
noun:  A village, the county seat of Catron County, New Mexico.
noun:  A census-designated place in Wisconsin.
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