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Kept back, set aside, or saved. For example, We have a fair amount of cash in reserve, or The coach decided to keep the best player in reserve until the last quarter. [Late 1600s]

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in reference to, in regard to, in relation to, in rem, in rerum natura, in reserve, in-residence, in respect to, in retrospect, in return, I.N.R.I.

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This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
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Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.
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Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”
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The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
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But those weapons are of limited utility, especially during close-in fights.
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In sorting notes it is necessary to be able readily to distinguish between notes of this bank and notes of other reserve banks.
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The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.
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At the reserve bank they may borrow as a standing right and not as a favor which may be cut off.
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She never realized that the reserve of her own character had much, perhaps everything, to do with this.
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Customers will do things in the name of the Federal Reserve System which they have never done before.
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