The property of being coy.
The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.
The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
Something that is withheld or kept back.
A limiting qualification regarding certainty; a doubt.
An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
A power of an overseeing authority to suspend legislation in the jurisdiction being overseen pending the approval of a higher authority. Such as a provincial/state governor reserving a bill passed by the state/provincial legislature from assent, pending approval of the federal government; or a federal bill passed by federal parliament being reserved by the viceroy pending approval by the crown.
A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).