Synonyms of the word

reserve

• n. (behaviour) Restriction.
• n. That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
• n. (social) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation.
• n. In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person…
• n. (calico printing) A resist.
• n. A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
• v. To keep back; to retain.
• v. To keep in store for future or special use.
• v. To book in advance; to make a reservation.
• v. (obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.

accumulation

• n. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
• n. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
• n. A mass of something piled up or collected.
• n. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
• n. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
• n. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is…

allot

• v. (transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
• v. (transitive) To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.

allow

• v. (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
• v. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
• v. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
• v. To not bar or obstruct.
• v. (intransitive) To acknowledge or concede.
• v. (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
• v. (transitive) To render physically possible.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
• v. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

appropriate

• adj. (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
• adj. Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
• adj. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To make suitable; to suit.
• v. (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
• v. (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all…
• v. (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation,…

assign

• v. (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
• v. (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
• v. (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
• v. (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
• v. (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
• v. (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
• n. An assignee.
• n. (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

athlete

• n. A participant in a group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country…
• n. (US, Canada) A person who actively participates in physical sports, especially with great skill; a sportsperson.
• n. An exceptionally physically fit person.

backlog

• n. An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders or unfinished work.
• n. (video games) In visual novels, a log containing text previously read.
• n. A reserve source or supply.
• n. A large log to burn at the back of a fire.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To acquire something as a backlog, or to become a backlog.

bespeak

• v. (transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
• v. (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
• v. (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
• v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
• v. (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
• v. (intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
• n. A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

book

• n. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material,…
• n. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published…
• n. A major division of a long work.
• n. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
• n. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
• n. (theater) The script of a musical.
• n. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
• n. A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book.
• n. (law) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class…
• n. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
• n. (poker slang) four of a kind.
• n. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
• n. (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
• v. (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
• v. (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
• v. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence…
• v. (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been…
• v. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
• v. To record bets as bookmaker.
• v. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
• v. (Britain dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake.

correctitude

• n. The quality of being correct.

earmark

• v. (transitive) To mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear.
• v. (transitive, by extension) To specify or set aside for a particular purpose, to allocate.
• n. A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership.
• n. (US, politics) The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs.
• n. A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

jock

• n. (slang, archaic) A common man.
• n. (Britain, slang, pejorative) A Scotsman.
• n. (slang, rare, dated) The penis.
• n. An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals especially during sports, a jockstrap.
• n. (US, slang) A young male athlete (through college age).
• n. (US, slang, pejorative) An enthusiastic athlete or sports fan, especially one with few other interests…
• n. (US, slang, computing, in combination) A specialist computer programmer.
• v. (slang) to masturbate.
• v. (slang) to humiliate.
• v. (slang) to steal.

military

• adj. Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
• adj. (Canada, US) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished…
• adj. Relating to war.
• adj. Relating to armies or ground forces.
• n. Armed forces.
• n. (US, with the) U.S. armed forces in general, including the Marine Corps.

modesty

• n. The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.
• n. Moderate behaviour; reserve.
• n. (specifically) Pudency, prudish avoidance of sexual explicitness.

portion

• n. An allocated amount.
• n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• n. One's fate; lot.
• n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
• n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
• v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
• v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

properness

• n. The state or condition of being proper; propriety.
• n. (mathematics) The state or condition of being proper (of a proper fraction, proper subset, etc.).
• n. (obsolete) Excellence, quality.

propriety

• n. (obsolete) The particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality.
• n. (obsolete) A characteristic; an attribute.
• n. (now rare) A piece of land owned by someone; someone's property.
• n. (obsolete) More generally, something owned by someone; a possession.
• n. The fact of possessing something; ownership.
• n. (now rare) Correct language or pronunciation.
• n. Suitability, fitness; the quality of being appropriate.
• n. Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness.

quest

• n. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
• n. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
• n. (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
• n. (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
• n. (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
• v. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
• v. To search for; to examine.
• v. (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.

request

• n. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
• n. A formal message requesting something.
• n. Condition of being sought after.
• n. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
• v. to express the need or desire for.
• v. to ask somebody to do something.

reservation

• n. The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
• n. Something that is withheld or kept back.
• n. (often plural) A limiting qualification; a doubt.
• n. (US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation…
• n. An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
• n. (Britain) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway.
• n. (India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members…

reticence

• n. tight-lippedness, discretion, avoidance of saying too much.
• n. a silent and reserved nature.

second-stringer

• n. A person who plays second string. A person who is kept on a sports team as a backup in case a "first-string"…
• n. A person who is not good enough to be considered proficient but may be useful as a backup.

stockpile

• n. A supply of something kept safe for future use.
• v. To accumulate a stockpile.

substitute

• v. (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
• v. (transitive) In the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", to use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
• v. (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
• v. (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
• n. A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
• n. (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually…
• n. (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.

taciturnity

• n. The trait of being taciturn.
• n. (law, Scotland) Failure to assert a legal right in a way that implies that it is being given up.

uncommunicativeness

• n. The quality of being uncommunicative.

withhold

• v. (transitive) To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to…
• v. (transitive) To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.