Reserve vs Foredeal - What's the difference?
reserve | foredeal |
(label) Restriction.
# The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation; exception.
# Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
# A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
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, title= # 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.
# (label) A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US (reservation).)
# (label) A body of troops kept 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.
# (label) Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
# Wine held back and aged before being sold.
(label) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation.
# (label) A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
# (label) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
To keep back; to retain.
To keep in store for future or special use.
* Jonathan Swift
To book in advance; to make a reservation.
(obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.
An advantage; benefit; profit.
*1965 , Brewer, Brodie, Gairdner, Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII :
*1889 , Sir thomas Mallory, La morte d'Arthure: The history of King Arthur and of the Knights
*1846 , Miles Coverdale, Remains of Miles Coverdale (Hope of the Faithful) :
The first place; lead; precedence; preference.
Progress; advancement.
As an adjective reserve
is reserved.As a noun foredeal is
an advantage; benefit; profit.As a verb foredeal is
to store; lay past; keep in reserve; hoard.reserve
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Noun
(en noun)- .
Martin Lukacs
Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy, passage=If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.}}
Synonyms
* reservation, res * (restraint of freedom in words or actions) self-restraint, reticence, taciturnity * substitute * (tract of land for Aboriginal peoples) rezDerived terms
* Federal Reserve * Federal Reserve System * nature reserve * reserve bank * reserve price * wildlife reserveVerb
- We reserve the right to make modifications.
- This cake is reserved for the guests!
- Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.
- I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town.
Anagrams
* * * ----foredeal
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) * (l) (erroneous) * (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(en noun)- [...] and at a great foredeal' already; [and as for] such ' foredeal that they despair not of the...a deal, but that through the help of God, [our Grace and] other good ministers, these personages which [shall be now] sent shall undoubtedly conclude [...]
- And thus the battaile was great, and oftentimes that one partie was at a foredele and anon at an afterdele, which endured long.
- And though this be a great foredeal , and an excellent jewel, yet the great and unspeakable glory, that in time to come shall be declared in us, hath not yet appeared.