reservation Definition

1. The act of reserving something for future use.
2a. The act of booking or ordering in advance, eg a hotel room, a table in a restaurant, etc;
2b. Something, eg a hotel room, a table in a restaurant, etc, that has been reserved or booked in advance.
3. A doubt or objection which prevents one being able to accept or approve something, eg a plan, proposition, etc, wholeheartedly.

Example: she had reservations about the whole idea
Example: She had reservations about the idea
Thesaurus: restraint, hesitation, hesitancy, second thought, inhibition.
Form: reservations (often)
4. A limiting condition, proviso or exception to an agreement, etc.
5. An area of land set aside for a particular purpose, especially one in the US and Canada for Native Americans.
(Brit)
6. A central reservation.
7. In some Christian churches: the practice of keeping back part of the consecrated bread and wine for some particular purpose after the service, eg for taking to the sick.
8a. RC Church.
The right of the pope to nominate someone to a vacant benefice;
8b. RC Church.
An act of exercising this right.
9a. law.
A clause of a deed by which someone reserves for themselves a right or interest in a property they are conveying, renting, etc to someone else;
9b. law.
The act of reserving this right or interest.