reservation

Definition

  • noun: an arrangement to have something (such as a room, table, or seat) held for your use at a later time
  • noun: an act of 'reserving' something
  • often plural
  • synonyms: reserve, proviso, exception

Examples

  • He supported her decision 'without reservation'. [=he completely supported her decision]

  • My only 'reservation' about buying the car was its high price.

  • We made dinner 'reservations' at the restaurant for 6 o'clock.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) As Houston recalls, she, uh, took off in your seventy-four GTO. Engineering requests fuel status on the jetpack prototype. Five hours off the reservation and I show thirty percent drain. Give my compliments to Engineering. Except for a slight malfunction in the nulling of the roll axis, (..)
    2013 Gravity