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How to pronounce “reservation”
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Pronunciation guide for reservation
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of reservation with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Indian Land: The Lasting Legacy of Manifest Destiny
of Montana, the Crow reservation and the northern Cheyenne
- Definition summary
- The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce reservation
Indian Land: The Lasting Legacy of Manifest Destiny
of Montana, the Crow reservation and the northern Cheyenne
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “reservation”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- Something that is withheld or kept back.
- (often in the plural) A limiting qualification regarding certainty or risk; a doubt or concern.
- (US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people, such as the Hopi Reservation or the Navajo Nation's territory.
- An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
- (UK) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway.
- (India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
- (law, politics) A power of an overseeing authority to suspend legislation in the jurisdiction being overseen pending the approval of a higher authority. Such as a provincial/state governor reserving a bill passed by the state/provincial legislature from assent, pending approval of the federal government; or a federal bill passed by federal parliament being reserved by the viceroy pending approval by the crown.
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