0 present participle of reserve
1 to keep something for a particular purpose or time:
I reserve Mondays for tidying my desk and answering letters.
These seats are reserved for the elderly and women with babies.
I reserve judgment on this issue (= I won't give an opinion on it now) until we have more information.
[ + two objects ] If you get there early, reserve me a seat/reserve a seat for me.
I'm awfully sorry, but we've forgotten to reserve you a table.
Could I reserve two seats for tomorrow evening's performance?
I've come to collect my tickets - I reserved them by phone yesterday in the name of Tremin.
"Had you forgotten about our anniversary?" "Certainly not! I've reserved a table at Michel's restaurant for this evening."
The worst of her criticism was reserved for journalists, photographers and others of their ilk.
State law could also tolerate, or even encourage, a variety of private normative orders, while reserving to itself the monopoly of legitimate coercion.
Event-triggered communication suffers from the problem of reserving resources (mainly bandwidth) under worst-case assumptions.
Reserving a seat for each of the two territories, we reach the current number of representatives of 435.
