reservations

Noun

reservation (countable and uncountable, plural reservations)

1. The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
   • The committee authorised the reservation of funds.
   1. The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
   2. The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
2. Something that is withheld or kept back.
3. (in plural, often) A limiting qualification regarding certainty or risk; a doubt or concern.
   • I have reservations about your intentions.
4. (US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people, such as the Hopi Reservation or the Navajo Nation's territory.

   Synonyms:

   reserve, res, rez, rezzy

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