Usually means: Set aside for future use.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word reserve:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. reserve: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reserve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reserve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reserve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reserve: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reserve, reserve: Wordnik
  7. reserve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Reserve, reserve: Wiktionary
  9. reserve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reserve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reserve: Dictionary.com
  12. reserve (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. reserve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Reserve (accounting), Reserve (disambiguation), Reserve (sport), Reserve (territorial entity), Reserve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Reserve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. reserve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. reserve: Rhymezone
  18. Reserve-, reserve, reserve (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. reserve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. reserve: Free Dictionary
  21. reserve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. reserve: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. reserve: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. reserve: Law.com Dictionary
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. RESERVE: Accounting Glossary
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Reserve: bizterms.net
  8. reserve: Legal dictionary
  9. reserve: Financial dictionary
  10. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. Reserve: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reserve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. reserve: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. reserve: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Reserve, reserve: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reserve: Skydiving Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See reservable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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