IN RESERVE

Definition: IN RESERVE

IN RESERVE

1. In keeping for other or future use; in store; as, he has large quantities of wheat in reserve; he has evidence or arguments in reserve.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Destiny

Adjective: impending; Verb: destined; about to be, happen; coming, in store, to come, going to happen, instant, at hand, near; near, close at hand; over hanging, hanging over one's head, imminent; brewing, preparing, forthcoming; int he wind, on the cards, in reserve; that will, is to be; in prospect; (expected); looming in the distance, horizon, future; unborn, in embryo; int he womb of time, futurity; pregnant; (producing).

Preparation

Adjective: preparing; Verb: in preparation, in course of preparation, in agitation, in embryo, in hand, in train; afoot, afloat; on foot, on the stocks, on the anvil; under consideration; (plan); brewing, batching, forthcoming, brooding; in store for, in reserve.

Provision

Have in store, have in reserve; keep, keep by one, keep on foot, keep on hand; have to fall back upon; store; provide against a rainy day; (economy).

Store

Adjective: stored; Verb:; in store, in reserve, in ordinary; spare, supernumerary.

Crosswords: IN RESERVE

Personally, I think she has plenty - in reserve! (It; writing credit: Elinor Glyn; Hope Loring)

While our armies are advancing so fast and everyone's knocking themselves out to be heroes, we are holding ourselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Parisor maybe ever New York. (Kelly's Heroes; writing credit: Troy Kennedy-Martin)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Economic Factors in Reserve Attrition: Prior Service Individuals in the Army National Guard and Army Reserve (Rand Report, R-3686-Ra) (reference)

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Laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, circa late 1902 or early 1903. Other ships present, at extreme left and in center beyond Montauk and Lehigh, include three other old monitors and two new destroyers (probably Bainbridge and Chauncey, both in reserve at Philadelphia from November 1902 to February 1903). Credit: NAVY.

Laid up in reserve at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, 24 August 1961. Credit: NAVY.

Ships laid up in reserve at Bremerton, 19 March 1970. They are, from left to right: USS Fort Marion (LSD-22), USS Missouri (BB-63), USS Roanoke (CL-145) and USS Worcester (CL-144). Credit: NAVY.

At Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California, on 21 November 1951. She was recommissioned for Korean War service on 23 November after having been in reserve since April 1948. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed in 1898, possibly while being prepared for Spanish-American War service. Note that her turret has a "roof" of the type fitted to monitors while they were laid up in reserve. Photographed by A. Loeffler, Tompkinsville, N.Y. Credit: NAVY.

One of the oldest houses in Reserve, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All other warships, except where there is provision to the contrary in the present Treaty, must be placed in reserve or devoted to commercial purposes. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction.

Every man, even the best, has some inconsiderate severity which he holds in reserve for animals.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Denmark

Wind power is expected to cover 20+ACU- of total consumption by year 2003. The Danish power-plants producing for national consumption are modern and fuel-efficient, while plants held in reserve for peak production and export are less so. There is a substantial over-capacity in Denmark. (references)

Chile

Although the device was held in reserve for future use, the Central Bank permanently eliminated the "encaje" in April 2001. Additional reforms eliminated controls on flows of foreign capital into Chilean debt and equity markets and freed outflows associated with capital returns, dividends, and other investments from the need for Central Bank approval. (references)

Political Economy

URUGUAY

A US$193 million IMF stand-by credit is in place until March 2002. Uruguay does not usually draw funds from IMF credits, but keeps them in reserve as a precaution. (references)

Trade

Costa Rica

The reduction in reserve requirements has helped narrow the spread. (references)

Zambia

The increase in reserve rates noted above caused interest rates to increase accordingly, which in turn forced the government to lower the reserve rates, reversing its initial decision after only four weeks. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "IN RESERVE": keep in reserve. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

в запас. (various references)

Chinese 

備�"� (machine parts or tools kept in reserve, spare parts). (various references)

Greek 

αποθεματικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian

tartalékol (keep in reserve, lay by, lay up, set apart, set aside, to reserve, to set apart, to set aside). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

能ある鷹は爪�'� す (a wise man keeps some of his talents in reserve, one shouldn't show off, the person who knows most often says least), 持ち�' (a captured piece than can be reused, a person or object held in reserve, available means), 取って置き (object set aside or held in reserve, the best, valued). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のうあるたかはつめ�'かくす (a wise man keeps some of his talents in reserve, one shouldn't show off, the person who knows most often says least), もち�"ま (a captured piece than can be reused, a person or object held in reserve, available means), とっておき (object set aside or held in reserve, the best, valued). (various references)

Pig Latin

inay eserveray

Turkish

yedek olarak. (various references)

subsidarius. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: reveries, veneries, verniers.

-2 letters: enviers, eserine, eveners, inverse, nervier, reivers, rerisen, reserve, reveres, reverie, reverse, reviser, rievers, serener, severer, sneerer, veeries, veiners, veneers, venires, vernier, versine.

-3 letters: eerier, envier, envies, evener, nereis, nerves, nieves, reeves, reiver, reives, rerise, reseen, revere, revers, revise, riever, rinser, rivers, seiner, serein, serene, serine, server, severe, sirree, veiner.

+2 letters: interveners, persevering, reversioner, vinedresser.

+3 letters: interservice, interviewers, irrelevances, irreverences, reinnervates, reinterviews, reprehensive, reversioners, veterinaries, vinedressers.

+4 letters: enteroviruses, interobserver, invertebrates, irrelevancies, nonreversible, overengineers, overexertions, overreliances, oversecretion, perseverating, perseveration, perseveringly, preinterviews, recursiveness, semievergreen.

+5 letters: interobservers, overexercising, overgenerosity, oversecretions, perseverations, refractiveness, regressiveness, representative, repressiveness, reverberations, underachievers.