Usually means: Area designated for specific use.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. reservation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reservation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reservation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reservation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reservation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reservation, reservation: Wordnik
  7. reservation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. reservation: Wiktionary
  9. reservation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reservation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reservation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. reservation: Dictionary.com
  13. reservation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. reservation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Reservation (disambiguation), Reservation (law), Reservation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Reservation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. reservation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. reservation: Rhymezone
  19. reservation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. reservation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Reservation: American-Britih Dictionary
  22. reservation: Free Dictionary
  23. reservation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. reservation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. reservation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. reservation: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. reservation: Legal dictionary
  11. reservation: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reservation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reservation: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reservation: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See reservationist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
noun:  The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
noun:  The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
noun:  Something that is withheld or kept back.
noun:  (often in the plural) A limiting qualification regarding certainty; a doubt.
noun:  (US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
noun:  An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
noun:  (UK) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.
noun:  (India) 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).
noun:  (law, politics) 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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