noun a proviso.
2. reservation ·noun the state of being reserved, or kept in store.
3. reservation ·noun something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
4. reservation ·noun the act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
5. reservation ·noun a tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of indians, ·etc.
6. reservation ·noun a term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.
7. reservation ·noun a clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
8. reservation ·noun the portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.