v
Alternative form of appui [(transitive, military) To support, e.g. by posting troops.]
adj
Standby, reserve or extra.
v
Obsolete spelling of bring [(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.]
n
An amount, especially a sum of money, transferred to a new column in a ledger, or applied to a later time.
v
To leave in safekeeping.
n
A reserve used in cookie-jar accounting.
v
(transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
n
A sales routine to try to close a sale with a prospect who has said "no" and is about to leave. It usually includes a special discount.
v
To make a device or mechanism fail-safe, or to add a fail-safe device or mechanism to an existing system.
n
(medicine) The remaining capacity of an organ or body part to fulfil its physiological activity; (especially) in the context of disease, ageing, or impairment.
v
To raise funds for a specified cause or purpose.
n
A spare device, component, or other piece of equipment which is kept powered up although not being actively used, allowing it to be immediately brought online as a replacement should a piece of equipment fail while in active use.
v
(transitive) To place an item into pawn.
v
To reserve (something, especially money) for future use; to save as a backup.
n
(Canada, US) An item which has been held in this way.
v
(transitive, business) To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
adj
(of a person) Having ones employment transferred to a third party
n
(US, education) A paper form that a school sends home with a student to a parent, onto which the parent provides authorization for the student to attend a certain event, such as a field trip.
v
(intransitive) To play rugby in the prop position.
v
(transitive) To support with, or as if with, a prop.
n
Alternative form of prop. [An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.]
n
(archaic, rare) Reservation.
n
Something that is withheld or kept back.
n
The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
n
(historical) A list of officers on half pay who could be called upon in an emergency.
n
One for whom something is reserved.
n
A person who reserves something
n
The practice of an employee being kept in reserve and asked to work only when needed.
v
(transitive) To store or keep (something) in or as in a reservoir.
n
(obsolete) That which contains something, as a tablet; a means of preserving impressions.
v
(idiomatic) To save something just in case one may need it.
adj
Making reservation or exception.
v
(transitive) To assist or support; to back.
adj
reserved or booked in advance
n
A superfluous or second-best person, specially (in a dynastic context) in the phrase "An heir and a spare".
n
A component of any manufactured goods, kept in reserve to replace one that fails; a spare.
v
To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
v
To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
n
The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers leave and are replaced, a property changes hands, etc.
n
A right of way granted by a landowner.
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