Word Meaning

Meaning of "reserves" and the crossword clue

- Again do duty with restraint
- Armed forces not on active duty who can be called in an emergency
- Auxiliary
- Backup
- Backup (troops)
- Book
- Book player on the bench
- Book put to one side
- Nest egg
- Parkland
- Protected area for wildlife
- Put a hold on
- Put aside
- Put off
- put to one side
- Ready money
- Reticence
- Shyness
- Shyness; book
- Substitute book
- Wildlife sanctuary
- Withhold
- Sets aside
- To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.
- Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain.
- To make an exception of; to except.
- The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
- That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
- That which is excepted; exception.
- Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
- A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
- A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
- Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.