reserve

v

1. husband, hold, withhold, hold back, keep, keep back, conserve, save, save for future use, save for a rainy day; set aside, put aside, put away, lay away, lay by, lay up, stow away, squirrel away, salt away, Sl. sock away; store, stockpile, amass, accumulate, pile up.

2. retain, secure; engage, book, charter.

3. earmark, tag, set apart or aside; allot, allocate, apportion.

n

4. store, stock, supply, supply on hand, inventory; stockpile, accumulation, amassment, backlog; reservoir; nest egg, something to fall back on, something for a rainy day; card up one's sleeve, Sl. ace in the hole.

5. reservation, preserve. See reservation(def. 2).

6. exception. See reservation(def. 1).

7.Military. support, backup, reinforcements; auxiliaries, National Guard, home guard.

8. formality, restraint, self-restraint, self-control, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness; guardedness, discretion; aloofness, offishness, stand-offishness, unsociability; distance, detachment, remoteness, inaccessibility, unapproachability; coolness, chilliness, coldness, frigidness, iciness.

9. reticence, taciturnity, untalkativeness, uncom-municativeness, unresponsiveness, closed-mouthedness; secrecy, secretiveness.

10. in reserve

reserved, held back, put aside; in hand; in store, in readiness. See also reserved(def. 1).

11. without reserve

without restraint, frankly, candidly, directly, straightforwardly; plainly, explicitly, unequivocally; freely, outspokenly, uninhibitedly, unabashedly; bluntly, brusquely, tactlessly.

adj

12. spare, extra; substitute, alternate, secondary, backup, auxiliary