hold
diffident
backfill
reservor
trump
reservedly
RSVP
stockpiling
backlog
on hold
reservative
Mkhobosa
backup
in the tank
cushion
bags
underreserved
away
aside
by
bank
spare
wildlife refuge
back
reserver
twos
magoos
hidden reserve
pull out all the stops
hold back
auxiliary
lay away
restraint
dibs
foredeal
monetary fund
fund
immobilize
immobilise
redif
reserve currency
backbencher
modesty
nest egg
Enoch
put by
Cowessess
retentionist
cookie-jar reserve
speak for
ones
up one's sleeve
yieldy
leftover
Lake of the Woods
book
dry powder
capital reserve
hole card
discount rate
accumulated depreciation
underreserve
underkeep
freeholding
RBI
reserve
ratissage
savings
illiquidity
knuckle
mizzle
reservatory
ressie
mad money
fractional reserve banking
subsistence
point d'appui
resource
retainment
safekeeping
preserve
in one's back pocket
Federal Reserve
save
disposit
spare part
sit on
Indian River
have two strings to one's bow
lunette
resourceless
wary
diffident
reservative
underreserved
spare
auxiliary
backup
yieldy
leftover
reservatory
resourceless
wary
reservedly
away
aside
by
reservor
trump
stockpiling
backlog
backfill
backup
cushion
bank
wildlife refuge
back
reserver
twos
magoos
hidden reserve
restraint
monetary fund
fund
redif
reserve currency
backbencher
modesty
nest egg
retentionist
cookie-jar reserve
ones
dry powder
capital reserve
hole card
discount rate
accumulated depreciation
underkeep
freeholding
ratissage
savings
illiquidity
RSVP
ressie
mad money
fractional reserve banking
subsistence
point d'appui
resource
retainment
safekeeping
spare part
lunette
hold
backfill
RSVP
bags
pull out all the stops
hold back
lay away
dibs
foredeal
immobilize
immobilise
put by
speak for
book
underreserve
reserve
spare
knuckle
mizzle
preserve
save
disposit
sit on
have two strings to one's bow
verb
- To reserve.
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
noun
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To provide reserve support.
- To enter an online game that's already in progress, replacing a player who left early.
- To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss.
- To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.
- To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and/or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated.
noun
noun
- Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
- The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- A playing card of that suit.
- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
- Flatulence.
verb
noun
- A reserve or substitute.
- reinforcements
- A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is destroyed or damaged.
- An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement of the material, or an accumulation of material that causes an overflow due to the flow being greater than the maximum possible flow.
adj
noun
- Money kept in reserve.
- a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
- A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling on, resting one's head on etc.
- A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
- The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
- A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
- An engraver's pad.
- The pillow used in making bone lace.
- A pad supporting a woman's hair.
- The rubber of an electrical machine.
- The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.
verb
adv
- in reserve; not for immediate use
- from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
- from one's possession
- out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)
- out of existence
- at a distance in space or time
- indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily
- so as to be removed or gotten rid of
- freely or at will
- in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping)
- in a different direction
adj
adj
noun
- a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
- sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
- a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
- a long ridge or pile
- an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
- the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
- a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
- a building in which the business of banking is transacted
- a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
verb
adj
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- thin and fit
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
verb
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
- give up what is not strictly needed
- use frugally or carefully
noun
noun
noun
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
postp
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
noun
noun
- a reserve of money set aside for some purpose
- a supply of something available for future use
- a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies
verb
- convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds
- place or store up in a fund for accumulation
- provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest
- invest money in government securities
- accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability
- furnish money for
noun
- A member of a team who does not usually play, but who is held in reserve.
- A Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank, and who therefore sits on one of the backbenches or in one of the back rows of the legislature.
- A student who does not perform well, especially one who sits at the back of the classroom.
- Someone who does not play an active role in a process.
name
verb
- To store, or place in reserve; to save (money, etc.) for later use.
- Of a ship: to be run aground intentionally to avoid a collision
- To perform an action without attracting the attention of.
- To remove (something) from the present context and into its proper place; (figurative) to reject or disregard.
prep_phrase
adj
name
- Any of various First Nations reserves in Ontario.
- A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
- Any of several other lakes in California, Indiana, Oregon and Wyoming in the United States.
- A census-designated place in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States.
- A subdivision in Peoria County, Illinois.
- A township in Rainy River District, Ontario, Canada.
- A large lake in Ontario, Manitoba and Minnesota on the Canada-US border.
- A census-designated place in Orange County, Virginia, United States.
verb
- To reserve (something) for future use.
- To record bets as bookmaker.
- To receive the highest grade in a class.
- To leave.
- To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
- To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
- simple past tense of bake
- To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
- To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
- To travel very fast.
noun
- A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
- A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
- A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
- A major division of a long work.
- A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
- Records of the accounts of a business.
- A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
- Six tricks taken by one side.
- Four of a kind.
- The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
- The script of a musical or opera.
- A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
- The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
- Any source of instruction.
- The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
- A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
- A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
verb
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance
noun
- formality and propriety of manner
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
- (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions
- a district that is reserved for particular purpose
- armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency
- the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
noun
- A monetary device whereby national reserves are temporarily given up to a central bank.
- A raid (especially violent) carried out by the police or military, originally and chiefly carried out by the French in Algeria. and, prior to that, by the Milice (Vichy Government counter-terror police) in 1943-44.
verb
- To yield.
- To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.
- To strike or punch.
- To land on the knuckle of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
- To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
- To bend the fingers.
noun
- The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
- A cut of meat.
- The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
- A mechanical joint.
- The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
- Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.
- A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
- A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
noun
noun
- the storage of assets in a protected area
- the responsibility of a guardian
- the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft
- not returning checks; a system wherein banks keep checks (cheques) that people write, rather than returning them to the account holder with their monthly statement.
verb
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- prevent (food) from rotting
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing
noun
verb
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- bring into safety
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- accumulate money for future use
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from sins
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- retain rights to
- record data on a computer
noun
name
- A First Nations reserve in Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated area of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- A tributary of the Hudson River in Hamilton County and Essex County, New York, United States.
- A tributary of the Moose River in Hamilton County and Herkimer County, New York, United States.
- A lagoon in Florida, United States.
- A river in Dominica.
- A river in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
- A river in Washington County, Maine, United States.
- A river in the Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.
- A river in Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada.
- A tributary of the West Canada Creek in Herkimer County, New York, United States.
- A tributary of the Big Sioux River in South Dakota, United States.
- A river within the city of Chesapeake, Virginia, United States.
- The former name of the Dän Tàgé river, Yukon, Canada.
- A river in Muskoka district municipality, Ontario, Canada.
- A river in Yukon, Canada.
- A river in the Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States.
- A river in Cheboygan County, Michigan, United States.
- A river in Renfrew County and Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada.
- A community in the township of Otonabee-South Monaghan, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cheboygan County, Michigan, United States.
- A river in western New Hampshire, United States.
- A river in Barbados.
- A tributary of the Manistique River, on the Upper Peninsula, Michigan, United States.
- A river and estuary in Sussex County, in southern Delaware, United States.
- A tributary of the Oswegatchie River, in far northern New York, United States.
- A river in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada.
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