reserve

reserve is a 7-letter English word with 21 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.
2. transitive verb. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain.
3. transitive verb. To make an exception of; to except.
4. noun. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
5. noun. That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
6. noun. That which is excepted; exception.
7. noun. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
8. noun. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
9. noun. A body of troops 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.
10. noun. Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
11. noun. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary

    Synonyms: reticence, taciturnity

12. noun. formality and propriety of manner

    Synonyms: modesty

13. noun. armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency
14. noun. a district that is reserved for particular purpose

    Synonyms: reservation

15. noun. an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced

    Synonyms: substitute

16. noun. something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose

    Synonyms: backlog, stockpile

17. noun. (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions
18. verb. give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause

    "I will earmark this money for your research"

    "She sets aside time for meditation every day"

    Synonyms: allow, appropriate, earmark

19. verb. obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance

    "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's"

20. verb. hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency

    "they held back their applause in anticipation"

21. verb. arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance

    "reserve me a seat on a flight"

    "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"

    Synonyms: book, hold

Synonyms

reticence, taciturnity, modesty, reservation, substitute, backlog, stockpile, allow, appropriate, earmark, book, hold

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in reserve:

resever, reveres, reverse, severer

Common word forms

reserved, reserver, reserves, reserving, reserveful, reserveless

Words from these letters

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