Reserved

Definition: Reserved

Reserved

Adjective

1. Set aside for the use of a particular person or party.

2. Marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria Sackville-West.

3. Cool and formal in manner.

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Date "reserved" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Electrical Engineering

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Synonyms: Reserved

Concealment

Obrep furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking; Verb: surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly; (cunning).; secretive, evasive; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close, close as wax; taciturn.

Modesty

Out of countenance; (humbled). reserved, constrained, demure.

Store

Stock in trade, supply; heap; (collection); treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche.

Taciturnity

Taciturn, sparing of words; closetongued; costive, inconversable, curt; reserved; reticent; (concealing).

Crosswords: Reserved

I practically have reserved parking (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor)

They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered they're heroes (Field of Dreams; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson)

Actually, no. Three years ago, I reserved this specific spot (What Dreams May Come; writing credit: Ronald Bass)

Well more kind of reserved, you know, distantly (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat)

All rights reserved. (Hair Of The Dog; performing artist: Nazareth)

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Books

• Chippewa Treaty Rights: The Reserved Rights of Wisconsin's Chippewa Indians in Historical Perspective (reference)

• Indian Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Doctrine in Its Social and Legal Context (reference)

• Judgment reserved : a landmark environmental case (reference)

• Reserved (reference)

• Reserved Water Rights Settlement Manual (reference)

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USN Medical Supply Storehouse NO. 3 : Aisle #3- Issue Storehouse Bldg. Reserved stock of Blood Plasme, "IV" solutions and Serum Albumin along bulkhead. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A reserved seat. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And this properly concerns only such governments where the legislative is always in being, or at least where the people have not reserved any part of the legislative to deputies, to be from time to time chosen by themselves. (Second Treatise of Government)

Amendment X. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. (reference)

They will communicate to the German authorities the decisions which the Principal Allied and Associated Powers have reserved the right to take, or which the execution of the military, naval and air clauses may necessitate. (reference)

And in Sweatt v. Painter, supra, the Court expressly reserved decision on the question whether Plessy v. Ferguson should be held inapplicable to public education. (reference)

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She was disgustingly, was suspiciously reserved.

I have reserved, for the last, one or two rather more serious topics

Mason gave him another grim look from a vast repertoire he had developed which ranged from very, very blackly grim indeed at the bottom of the scale, all the way up to tiredly resigned and only faintly grim, which he reserved for his children’s birthdays

His manners were reserved, cold, polished, far from free

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Health

As toddlers, they may be somewhat shy and reserved. (references)

It is usually reserved for patients who have tumor remaining after surgery. (references)

AOI should be reserved for those infants for whom no specific cause of ALTE can be identified. (references)

Business

Shareholders equity is commonly defined to be the amount of total equity reserved for common and preferred shareholders. (references)

In Xinjiang the job of county party secretary is typically reserved for Han Chinese, even in counties that are close to 100 percent Uyghur. (references)

Although Lithuanian GDP growth was slowed by the Russian crisis, the telecom market continued to grow. While value-added goods and services have been reserved for urban users in the past, the consumption of these products has started spreading. (references)

Children

Jordan

The law requires that 2 percent of the available jobs be reserved for persons with physical disabilities. (references)

Barbados

As a result, the majority of new buildings have ramps, reserved parking, and special sanitary facilities for such persons. (references)

Greece

In the civil service, 5 percent of administrative staff and 80 percent of telephone operator positions are reserved for persons with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Pakistan

Legal provisions for minority reserved seats do not include the Senate and the Federal Cabinet. (references)

Qatar

The church building is to be located on a portion of the site reserved by the Government for the Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox communities. (references)

Hong Kong

A publisher of Falun Gong publications again successfully reserved prominent space at the annual Hong Kong International Book Fair, but decided to leave the space vacant. (references)

Discrimination

Syria

Certain prominent positions, such as that of provincial governor, are reserved solely for Ba'th Party members. (references)

Economic History

Solomon Islands

Land ownership is reserved for Solomon Islanders. (references)

Turkey

Certain activities are reserved for GOT owned enterprises. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

This treatment reportedly was reserved for suspected Interahamwe or Mai Mai collaborators. (references)

Bangladesh

Conditions in A and B cells are markedly better; A cells are reserved for prominent prisoners. (references)

Pakistan

For example, in May 2000, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the coup on the grounds of state necessity; however, the court ordered the Musharraf Government to hold national elections no later than 90 days after October 12, 2002. The decision also affirmed the Supreme Court's continued right of judicial review, ruled that it was legal for the Musharraf Government to amend the Constitution as long as the amendments do not change the basic character of the Constitution, and reserved the right to review the military's performance, the continued necessity of the Emergency Proclamation, and the PCO. (references)

Indigenous People

Malaysia

Then-Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin announced in May 1999 that a total of 314,715 acres of land would be reserved for Orang Asli. (references)

India

Moreover, persons from other backgrounds often usurp places reserved for members of tribes and lower castes in national educational institutions. (references)

Malaysia

The NGO pointed out that the total area of land actually reserved for Orang Asli had declined, not increased, since 1990. Surveying and transfer of title apparently has proceeded very slowly; however, during the year, a number of Orang Asli received land titles, and several state governments announced that land was being set aside for Orang Asli. (references)

Minorities

India

In some states, government jobs are reserved for Muslims of low caste descent. (references)

Latvia

Ecumenism still is a new concept in the country, and traditional religions have adopted a distinctly reserved attitude towards the concept. (references)

Uzbekistan

Senior positions in the government bureaucracy and business generally are reserved for ethnic Uzbeks, although there are numerous exceptions to this rule. (references)

Political Economy

VENEZUELA

The exploitation of iron ore and hydropower generation in the Caroni river basin remain reserved for the state. (references)

Tunisia

Approximately 20 percent of representation in the Chamber of Deputies is reserved for opposition parties (34 of 182 seats). (references)

Argentina

Many rights are reserved by the provinces under the constitution, in theory, producing a balance between federal and provincial authority. (references)

Political Rights

Czech Republic

No seats are reserved in either house for ethnic minorities. (references)

Colombia

Two Senate seats are reserved for indigenous representatives. (references)

Iran

Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians elect deputies to reserved Majles seats. (references)

Trade

Argentina

Direct loans are reserved for projects involving small businesses or cooperatives. (references)

Cape Verde

The portion of the share capital reserved for the private sector has not been raised. (references)

Turkey

The new board will have newly established authority once reserved only for the Turkish Government. (references)

Travel

Nigeria

Hotels demand an advance cash deposit at the time of booking for the entire period being reserved. (references)

Venezuela

Weekends and holidays are generally off-limits for business meetings with Venezuelans; these times are reserved for family. (references)

Czech Rep

Czechs are more reserved than Americans, and will be nervous about a typical American "let's get down to business" approach. (references)

Women

Malta

Prostitution is a serious offense under the law, and stiff penalties are reserved for organizers. (references)

Bahrain

Women increasingly have taken jobs previously reserved for men, and constitute approximately 20 percent of the workforce. (references)

Macau

Until their complaints are resolved, victims of domestic violence may be provided public housing, but no facilities are reserved expressly for them. (references)

Worker Rights

South Africa

However, criminal prosecution is reserved for "extreme circumstances," and there were no prosecutions by year's end. (references)

Poland

The most severe sentences are reserved for individuals trafficking in children and those luring women into prostitution abroad. (references)

Guatemala

The May reforms accord initial jurisdiction over labor law violations to the Labor Ministry, and set forth procedures for processing complaints, making initial determinations, and fining violators--new enforcement powers previously reserved to the labor courts. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "reserved": all rights reserved ♦ become reserved ♦ copyright reserved ♦ reserved demolition target ♦ reserved forest ♦ reserved fund ♦ reserved list ♦ reserved memory ♦ reserved person ♦ reserved route ♦ reserved seat ticket ♦ reserved seating ♦ reserved traffic lane ♦ reserved tree ♦ reserved word. Additional references.

Ending with "reserved": non-reserved.

Containing "reserved": non-reserved seating.

Afrikaans

bespreek (reserve). (various references)

Albanian

rezervova, i turpshëm (bashful, censurable, coy, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, humiliating, ignominious, ill at ease, indecent, infamous, inglorious, lewd, obscene, opprobrious, scandalous, self conscious, shamefaced, shameful, sheepish, shy, timid, unhallowed, vile, villainous), i ndruajtur (misgiving, self conscious, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shrinking, shy, tentative, timid, timorous, tremulant, tremulous), i mbyllur (barred, cagey, cagy, close, closed, confined, enclosed, finished, glued, laid up, landlocked, locked, made, pent up, sealed, self contained, shut, shut in, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconversable, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn), i fshehur (backstage, concealed, hidden, latent, on the lam, privy, secret). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتوم (close, discreet, reticent, secretive, taciturn), ‏مفرد لغرض خاص, ‏محتشم (bashful, chaste, coy, decent, decorous, demure, honest, modest, shy), ‏محجوز (confined, pawned), ‏متحفظ (aloof, aloofness, careful, cautious, close, discreet, incommunicable, incommunicative, reticent, secretive, self contained, stand offish, taciturn, uncommunicative, wary), ‏مدخر للمستقبل. (various references)

Breton

miret. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сдържан (aloof, buttoned up, chary, composed, continent, coy, distant, modest, offish, remote, restrained, reticent, retiring, stand offish, taciturn, unaffable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, undramatic, unemotional, unsociable, unsocial), резервиран (aloof, distant, inapproachable, incommunicative, offish, remote, reticent, retiring, self contained, stiff, undemonstrative), от запаса, необщителен (antisocial, dissociable, dissocial, dry, incommunicable, incommunicative, morose, reticent, segregative, self contained, taciturn, uncommunicative, unneighborly, unneighbourly, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn), запасен (emergency, inactive, reserve), запазен (engaged, extant, green, preserved, safe, uncorrupted, unworn), потаен (cagey, cagy, covert, disingenuous, furtive, hush hush, inner, reticent, secret, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, underhand). (various references)

Chinese 

后备. (various references)

Czech

rezervovaný (aloof, booked, distant, guarded, low key, restrained, retiring, self contained, stand offish, standoffish, undemonstrative). (various references)

Danish

reserveret, reserverede. (various references)

Dutch

gereserveerd (abstinent). (various references)

Esperanto

rezervis. (various references)

Estonian

reserveeritud, reserveerisite, reserveerisin. (various references)

Finnish

varattu (busy, dedicated), umpimielinen (uncommunicative), sulkeutunut (reticent, uncommunicative), pidättyväinen (abstemious), itseensäsulkeutunut (uncommunicative). (various references)

Flemish

gereserveerd. (various references)

French

réservé (retiring). (various references)

French Canadian

réservé. (various references)

German

reserviert (guarded, offish, reservedly, retiring, standoffish, standoffishly, undemonstrative), zurückhaltend (cagey, cautious, chary, diffident, distant, dull, guarded, guardedly, incommunicative, refraining, restrained, restrainedly, restraining, reticent, retiring, self-effacing, temperate, undemonstrative, unobtrusive), verschlossen (bolted, cagily, closed, locked, occlusive, sealed, secretive, secretively, taciturn, uncommunicative, unknowable), reservierte (offishly). (various references)

Greek 

κρατημένος, συγκρατημένοσ (pent up, restrained), συγκρατημένος (abstemious, pent up, temperate), επιφυλακτικόσ (canny, cautious, chary, chary of, gingerly, gingery, guarded, non committal, offish, qualified, uncommunicative, undemonstrative), επιφυλακτικός (cagey, cautious, cautious about, chary, wary), δεσμευμένος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מופרש (appropriated, separated), משומר (conserved, pickled), מאופק (low key, restrained, reticent, self controlled, undemonstrative), תפוס (absorbed, busy, engaged, occupied), שמור (conservation, guarded, guarding, preservation, preserving, restricted). (various references)

Hungarian

zárkózott (aloof, be unsociable, close, distant, incommunicable, incommunicative, remote, reticent, self contained, shut in, stand-off, standoffish, to say little, uncommunicative, undemonstrative), visszahúzódó (retractable, retractile, retractive), tartózkodó (aloof, chaste, coy, dry, guarded, irresponsive, keeping one's distance, offish, reticent, self contained, self-restrained, shy, standoff, stand-off, standoffish, unresponsive), magánakvaló, kimért (dry, prim, rigid, severe, stand-off, stiff, stringent, tempered, undemonstrative). (various references)

Icelandic

frátekið. (various references)

Indonesian

terpelihara (conserved, cultivated, protected). (various references)

Italian

riservato (booked, classified, close, confidential, coy, discreet, distant, engaged, offish, private, retiring, secret, secretive, standoffish, undemonstrative, undercover). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

備蓄 (emergency stores, stored). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

びちく (emergency stores, stored), ひかえめ (conservative, humble, moderate), かしきり (reservation), かくい (gentlemen, sirs, with reservations), かりきり, いじいじ (servile, timid, unable to be honest), よやくずみ (engaged), みずくさい (distant, not frank, stand-offish, watery), えんりょぶかい. (various references)

Korean 

보류하는 (Withheld). (various references)

Manx

urree hene (coy, coy of girl), tostagh (incommunicative, noiseless, reticent, silence, silent, tacit, taciturn), ry-hoi (anent, for), neuloayrtagh (ineffability, ineffable, inexpressible, uncommunicative), neareydagh (ashamed, ignominious, shameful), freaylt (maintained), er hene (coy, coy of boy). (various references)

Norwegian

bestilte (ordered), bestilt. (various references)

Pig Latin

eservedray.(various references)

Portuguese

reservado (aloof, box, cagey, chilly, close, closet, confidential, demure, distant, exclusive, freezing, incommunicative, long run, non-committal, offish, particular, qualified, repulsive, reticent, retiring, secretive, self-contained, separate, shy, special, stand-off, stand-offish, taciturn, unamenable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

reservado. (various references)

Romanian

rezervat (cagey, cagily, cautious, cold, distant, dry, offish, secretive, self contained, shy, stand offish, sullen, unapproachable), retras (covert, drawn, lone, lonely, private, quiet, recluse, remote, retired, retiring, secluded, seclusive, secret, separate, sequestered, solitary, unfrequented), reticent (reticent), rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, snappy, stale, stiff, stony, wintery, wintry), reþinut, reţinut (continent, coy, dry, moderate, restrained, restrictive), tãcut (close-lipped, discreet, dumb, mousy, mum, quiet, silent, silently, still, sullen, tacit, voiceless), pãstrat, mãsurat (measured, reasonable, shy, steady, temperate), discret (circumspect, delicate, discreet, hushed, maiden, mellow, secret, secretive, silent, subdued, unobtrusive), cumpãtat (abstemious, abstinent, measured, mild, moderate, sober, temperate, thrifty, well balanced), încuiat (close, secrecy, slow witted, stick in the mud, stickler), închiriat (close, cloudy, shut), în rezervã (by). (various references)

Russian 

резервный (off-duty, reserve), резервировать зарезервированный, заказанный заранее, запасной (duplicate, relief, reserve, spare, stand by). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rezervisan (aloof, booked, taciturn), zauzet (busy, engaged, taken), zatvoren (cloistered, closed, confined, jailed, landlocked, not public, unopened), uzdržan (composed, forbearing, offish, restrained, taciturn, undemonstrative). (various references)

Slovene

rezerviral. (various references)

Somali

qabsatay, qabsaday. (various references)

Spanish

reservado (bar parlour, classified, close, distant, kept, private, quiet, reticent, retiring, secret, secretive, self contained, uncommunicative), reservada (offish). (various references)

Swedish

sluten (bent, closed, covered, reticent, sealed, shut), reserverad (distant, guarded, insular, offish, qualified, self contained, standoffish, undemonstrative). (various references)

Tagalog

nagpareserba (did reserve). (various references)

Turkish

rezerve edilmiş (booked), tutulmuş (afflicted, afflicted with, engaged, hired, in love, lovestruck, smitten, smitten with, stiff, stricken, taken), sessiz (close-tongued, dumb, hushed, mum, mute, muted, noiseless, nonviolent, non-violent, quiescent, quiet, reticent, silent, soundless, speechless, still, surd, tacit, taciturn, tuneless, unvoiced, voiceless, without a sound, wordless), içine kapanık (self conscious, withdrawn), ayrýlmýş, ayrılmış (booked, disjointed, disunited, divided, divorced, estranged, isolated, segregate, set apart, set aside, split), ayırtılmış (booked), ağzı sıkı (cagey, close-lipped, discreet, incommunicative, inexpressive, reticent, secretive, tight lipped), çekingen (backward, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, distrustful of oneself, eunuch, faint, fainthearted, farouche, mousy, retiring, shrinking, shy, standoffish, timid, timorous, uncommunicative, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn). (various references)

Turkmen 

garasцяmez (unsociable), domma (quiet). (various references)

Ukrainian

резервний (reserve), зарезервований, запасний (alternate, auxiliary, duplicate, emergency, occasional, reserve, spare). (various references)

Vietnamese 

giữ gìn dự bị, dự trữ, dành trước kín đáo; dè dặt, dành riêng, dành. (various references)

modesta, modeste, modesti, modestis, modestos, modestum. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "reserved": reservedly, reservedness, reservednesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "reserved": cryopreserved, preserved, unreserved. (additional references)

Words containing "reserved": unreservedly, unreservedness, unreservednesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Reserved" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reberve, repermed, reserued, reservando, reservendo, reserveth, resferve, resorbed, Riserva. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deserver, reversed.

-1 letter: deserve, reserve, revered, reveres, reverse, severed, severer.

-2 letters: reeved, reeves, reseed, revere, revers, seeder, served, server, severe, veered, versed, verser.

-3 letters: deers, drees, erred, redes, reeds, reeve, resee, seder, sered, serer, serve, sever, veers, verse.

-4 letters: deer, dees, dere, devs, dree, errs, ever, eves, rede, reds, reed, rees, revs, seed, seer, sere, veer, vees.

+1 letter: deservers, preserved, reverends, verderers.

+2 letters: deliverers, persevered, redelivers, reobserved, reservedly, reserviced, resilvered, resurveyed, unreserved.

+3 letters: overdressed, overdresses, overspender, overstrewed, underserved, vinedresser.

+4 letters: eavesdropper, overasserted, overmastered, overpersuade, overserviced, overspenders, overstressed, perseverated, redeliveries, redevelopers, rediscovered, reservedness, unreservedly, vinedressers.

+5 letters: cryopreserved, daredevilries, eavesdroppers, overadvertise, overdecorates, overexercised, overharvested, overimpressed, overpersuaded, overpersuades, overprocessed, overresponded, overstretched, peradventures, pervertedness, predeliveries, rediscoveries, tergiversated.