reserve

to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.

to retain or secure by express stipulation.

to set apart for a particular use, purpose, service, etc..

to keep for oneself.

to retain (the original color) of a surface, as on a painted ceramic piece.

to save or set aside (a portion of the Eucharistic elements) to be administered, as to the sick, outside of the Mass or communion service.

Finance.��

1. cash, or assets readily convertible into cash, held aside, as by a corporation, bank, state or national government, etc., to meet expected or unexpected demands.

2. uninvested cash held to comply with legal requirements.

something kept or stored for use or need; stock.

a resource not normally called upon but available if needed.

a tract of public land set apart for a special purpose.

an act of reserving; reservation, exception, or qualification.

Military.��

1. a fraction of a military force held in readiness to sustain the attack or defense made by the rest of the force.

2. the part of a country's fighting force not in active service.

3. reserves, the enrolled but not regular components of the U.S. Army.

formality and self-restraint in manner and relationship; avoidance of familiarity or intimacy with others.

reticence or silence.

kept in reserve; forming a reserve.

of or relating to the animal awarded second place in livestock shows.