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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 res·er·va·tion /ˌrɛzɚ/
 預定,預約,保留,貯藏,緘默

From: Network Terminology

 reservation
 保留 預訂

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Res·er·va·tion n.
 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
    With reservation of an hundred knights.   --Shak.
    Make some reservation of your wrongs.   --Shak.
 2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
 3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. [U.S.]
 4. The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
 5. Law (a) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before. (b) A proviso.
 Note:This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded.
 6. Eccl. (a) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick. (b) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.
 Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 reservation
      n 1: a district that is reserved for particular purpose [syn: reserve]
      2: a statement that limits or restricts some claim; "he
         recommended her without any reservations" [syn: qualification]
      3: an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something
         wholeheartedly [syn: mental reservation, arriere pensee]
      4: the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the
         services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made
         the booking" [syn: booking]
      5: the written record or promise of an arrangement by which
         accommodations are secured in advance
      6: something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a
         seat on a plane etc.)
      7: the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future
         occasion