reserve
 re·serve (rĭ-zûrvʹ)tr.v. re·served, re·serv·ing, re·serves
1. To keep back, as for future use or for a special purpose.
2. To set or cause to be set apart for a particular person or use. See Synonyms at book.
3. To keep or secure for oneself; retain:
I reserve the right to disagree.
See Synonyms at keep.n.
1. Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose.
2. The act of reserving.
3. The keeping of one's feelings, thoughts, or affairs to oneself.
4. Self-restraint in expression; reticence: “One feels it everywhere, a quality of reserve, something held back” (Rollene W. Saal).
5. Lack of enthusiasm; skeptical caution.
6. An amount of capital held back from investment in order to meet probable or possible demands.
7. A reservation of public land:
a forest reserve.
8. An amount of a mineral, fossil fuel, or other resource known to exist in a particular location and to be exploitable:
the discovery of large oil reserves.
9.
a. A fighting force kept uncommitted until strategic need arises. Often used in the plural.
b. The part of a country's armed forces not on active duty but subject to call in an emergency.adj.
Held in or forming a reserve:
a reserve supply of food.Idiom:in reserve
Kept back, set aside, or saved. [Middle English reserven, from Old French reserver, from Latin reservāre, to keep back : re-, re- + servāre, to keep; See ser-1 in Indo-European Roots.] re·servʹa·ble adj.re·servʹer n.
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