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Reserve
(sometimes
Reserves
) may refer to:
Reserve wine
Reserve wine
Reserve wine is a term given to a specific wine to imply that is of a higher quality than usual, or a wine that has been aged before being sold, or both. Traditionally winemakers would "reserve" some of their best wine rather than sell it immediately, coining the term.In some countries the use of...
, a wine that specially designated
Course reserve
Course reserve
Course reserve is a term used in academic libraries to describe materials set aside for a specific academic course or other use. Most often materials are put on course reserve by library staff at the request of the course's instructor...
, library materials reserved for particular users
Dynamic reserve
Dynamic reserve
Reserve in the context of the Dynamic Energy Budget theory means the set of metabolites that the organism can use for metabolic purposes. These compounds can have active metabolic functions, however. They are not just "set apart for later use". Reserve differs from structure in the first place by...
, the set of metabolites that the organism can use for metabolic purposes
Reserve clause
Reserve clause
The reserve clause is a term formerly employed in North American professional sports contracts. The reserve clause, contained in all standard player contracts, stated that, upon the contract's expiration the rights to the player were to be retained by the team to which he had been signed...
, in North American professional sports contracts
Game reserve
Game reserve
A game reserve is an area of land set aside for maintenance of wildlife for tourism or hunting purposes. Many game reserves are located in Africa. Most are open to the public, and tourists commonly take sightseeing safaris or hunt wild game....
, land set aside for maintenance of wildlife for tourism or hunting
Fuel reserve
Fuel reserve
In motorcycles and cars, fuel reserve is the extra fuel reserved by the manufacturer in the fuel tank of a car or motorcycle before the main fuel capacity runs out....
, an extra fuel tank, or extra fuel in the main fuel tank
Recreation reserve, a
park
Park
A park is a protected area, in its natural or semi-natural state or planted, and set aside for human recreation and enjoyment. It may consist of, rocks, soil, water, flora and fauna and grass areas....
with sporting or other recreational facilities
Reserve stockpile
Stockpile
A stockpile is a pile or storage location for bulk materials, forming part of the bulk materials handling process.Stockpiles are used in many different areas, such as in a port, refinery or manufacturing facility. The stockpile is normally created by a stacker. A reclaimer is used to recover the...
, bulk materials reserved for future use
Reserved decision
Reserved decision
Reserved decision is a legal term. After the hearing of a trial or the argument of a motion a judge may not immediately deliver a decision, but instead take time to review evidence and the law and deliver a decision at a later time, usually in a written form....
, where a judge takes time to review evidence and the law and delivers a decision at a later time
Nature reserve
Nature reserve
A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research...
, a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest,
Indian reserve
Indian reserve
In Canada, an Indian reserve is specified by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." The Act also specifies that land reserved for the use and benefit of a band which is not...
, in Canada, a tract of land reserved for the use and benefit of a band
Reserve team
Reserve team
Reserve team is the term applied to the second team fielded by a sports club. This article is about the reserve teams of football clubs.-History:...
, the second team fielded by a sports club, often football-soccer
Official gold reserves
Official gold reserves
Gold reserves are held by central banks as a store of value. In 2006, it was estimated that all the gold ever mined totaled 158,000 tonnes. One tonne of gold equated to a value of US$30.27 million as of February 14, 2009...
, held by central banks as a store of value
Foreign exchange reserves
Foreign exchange reserves
Foreign exchange reserves in a strict sense are only the foreign currency deposits and bonds held by central banks and monetary authorities. However, the term in popular usage commonly includes foreign exchange and gold, SDRs and IMF reserve positions...
, the foreign currency deposits held by central banks and monetary authorities
Reserve currency
Reserve currency
A reserve currency is a currency which is held in significant quantities by many governments and institutions as part of their foreign exchange reserves...
, a currency which is held in significant quantities as part of foreign exchange reserves
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is an emergency fuel store of oil maintained by the United States Department of Energy.The US SPR is the largest emergency supply in the world with the current capacity to hold up to . The second largest emergency supply of oil is Japan's with a 2003 reported...
, an emergency petroleum store maintained by the U.S.
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Reserve
(sometimes
Reserves
) may refer to:
Reserve wine
Reserve wine
Reserve wine is a term given to a specific wine to imply that is of a higher quality than usual, or a wine that has been aged before being sold, or both. Traditionally winemakers would "reserve" some of their best wine rather than sell it immediately, coining the term.In some countries the use of...
, a wine that specially designated
Course reserve
Course reserve
Course reserve is a term used in academic libraries to describe materials set aside for a specific academic course or other use. Most often materials are put on course reserve by library staff at the request of the course's instructor...
, library materials reserved for particular users
Dynamic reserve
Dynamic reserve
Reserve in the context of the Dynamic Energy Budget theory means the set of metabolites that the organism can use for metabolic purposes. These compounds can have active metabolic functions, however. They are not just "set apart for later use". Reserve differs from structure in the first place by...
, the set of metabolites that the organism can use for metabolic purposes
Reserve clause
Reserve clause
The reserve clause is a term formerly employed in North American professional sports contracts. The reserve clause, contained in all standard player contracts, stated that, upon the contract's expiration the rights to the player were to be retained by the team to which he had been signed...
, in North American professional sports contracts
Game reserve
Game reserve
A game reserve is an area of land set aside for maintenance of wildlife for tourism or hunting purposes. Many game reserves are located in Africa. Most are open to the public, and tourists commonly take sightseeing safaris or hunt wild game....
, land set aside for maintenance of wildlife for tourism or hunting
Fuel reserve
Fuel reserve
In motorcycles and cars, fuel reserve is the extra fuel reserved by the manufacturer in the fuel tank of a car or motorcycle before the main fuel capacity runs out....
, an extra fuel tank, or extra fuel in the main fuel tank
Recreation reserve, a
park
Park
A park is a protected area, in its natural or semi-natural state or planted, and set aside for human recreation and enjoyment. It may consist of, rocks, soil, water, flora and fauna and grass areas....
with sporting or other recreational facilities
Reserve stockpile
Stockpile
A stockpile is a pile or storage location for bulk materials, forming part of the bulk materials handling process.Stockpiles are used in many different areas, such as in a port, refinery or manufacturing facility. The stockpile is normally created by a stacker. A reclaimer is used to recover the...
, bulk materials reserved for future use
Reserved decision
Reserved decision
Reserved decision is a legal term. After the hearing of a trial or the argument of a motion a judge may not immediately deliver a decision, but instead take time to review evidence and the law and deliver a decision at a later time, usually in a written form....
, where a judge takes time to review evidence and the law and delivers a decision at a later time
Nature reserve
Nature reserve
A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research...
, a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest,
Indian reserve
Indian reserve
In Canada, an Indian reserve is specified by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." The Act also specifies that land reserved for the use and benefit of a band which is not...
, in Canada, a tract of land reserved for the use and benefit of a band
Reserve team
Reserve team
Reserve team is the term applied to the second team fielded by a sports club. This article is about the reserve teams of football clubs.-History:...
, the second team fielded by a sports club, often football-soccer
Economic
Official gold reserves
Official gold reserves
Gold reserves are held by central banks as a store of value. In 2006, it was estimated that all the gold ever mined totaled 158,000 tonnes. One tonne of gold equated to a value of US$30.27 million as of February 14, 2009...
, held by central banks as a store of value
Foreign exchange reserves
Foreign exchange reserves
Foreign exchange reserves in a strict sense are only the foreign currency deposits and bonds held by central banks and monetary authorities. However, the term in popular usage commonly includes foreign exchange and gold, SDRs and IMF reserve positions...
, the foreign currency deposits held by central banks and monetary authorities
Reserve currency
Reserve currency
A reserve currency is a currency which is held in significant quantities by many governments and institutions as part of their foreign exchange reserves...
, a currency which is held in significant quantities as part of foreign exchange reserves
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is an emergency fuel store of oil maintained by the United States Department of Energy.The US SPR is the largest emergency supply in the world with the current capacity to hold up to . The second largest emergency supply of oil is Japan's with a 2003 reported...
, an emergency petroleum store maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy
Fractional-reserve banking
Fractional-reserve banking
Fractional-reserve banking is the banking practice in which banks keep only a fraction of their deposits in reserve and lend out the remainder, while maintaining the simultaneous obligation to redeem all these deposits upon demand...
Bank reserves
Bank reserves
Bank reserves are banks' holdings of deposits in accounts with their central bank , plus currency that is physically held in bank vaults . The central banks of some nations set minimum reserve requirements...
, holdings of deposits in central banks plus currency that is physically held in bank vaults
Reserve (accounting)
Reserve (Accounting)
In financial accounting, the term reserve is most commonly used to describe any part of shareholders' equity, except for basic share capital. Sometimes, the term is used instead of the term provision; such a use, however, is inconsistent with the terminology suggested by International Accounting...
, any part of shareholders' equity, except for basic share capital
Mineral reserves, natural resources that are economically recoverable, e.g.
Oil reserves
Oil reserves
Oil reserves are the estimated quantities of crude oil that are claimed to be recoverable under existing economic and operating conditions.The total estimated amount of oil in an oil reservoir, including both producible and non-producible oil, is called oil in place...
Actuarial reserves
Actuarial reserves
An actuarial reserve is a liability equal to the present value of the future expected cash flows of a contingent event. In the insurance context an actuarial reserve is the present value of the future cash flows of an insurance policy and the total liability of the insurer is the sum of the...
, a liability equal to the present value of the future expected cash flows of a contingent event
Reserve Primary Fund
Reserve Primary Fund
The Reserve Primary Fund is a large money market mutual fund.On September 16, 2008, during the Global financial crisis of September-October, 2008, it lowered its share price below $1 because of exposure to Lehman Brothers debt securities. This resulted in demands from investors to return their...
, a money market fund which "broke the buck"
Military
For the terms
military reserve
,
tactical reserve
, or
strategic reserve
or "
Reserve
/(s)" or sometimes as a "
reserve formation
"...
See:
Military reserve
Military reserve
A military reserve, tactical reserve, or strategic reserve is a group of military personnel or units which are initially not committed to a battle by their commander so that they are available to address unforeseen situations or exploit suddenly developing...
, all generally mean:
military personnel or groups of units not initially committed to battle so that they are available to address unforeseen situations, bolster defenses, or exploit opportunities.
Military reserve force
Military reserve force
A military reserve force is a military organization composed of citizens of a country who combine a military role or career with a civilian career. They are not normally kept under arms and their main role is be available to fight when a nation mobilizes for total war or to defend against invasion...
s, are units formed of military personnel making a long term commitment to train part-time and maintain military skills, typically sacrificing one weekend in four to serve as civilian soldiers who are available to fight when a nation mobilizes for war. Most reserve personnel have served with their regular forces before entering civilian life, and may in addition to their weekend training commitment, serve a longer annual training deployment between two weeks and a month in length.
Reserve components of the United States armed forces, "the Guard and Reserves"
Canadian Forces Primary Reserve
Canadian Forces Primary Reserve
The Primary Reserve is a reserve force of the Canadian Forces. It is the largest of four components to the CF reserves; those being the Primary Reserve, the Supplementary Reserve, the Canadian Rangers, and the Cadet Organizations Administration and Training Service .The reserve force is...
, the "Canadian Forces" Reserve Forces
War Reserve Stock
War Reserve Stock
A War Reserve Stock is a collection of warfighting material held in reserve in pre-positioned storage to be used if needed in wartime. They may be located strategically depending on where it is believed they will be needed. In addition to military equipment, a war reserve stock may include raw...
, a collection of warfighting material held in reserve in pre-positioned storage to be used if needed in wartime
Placenames
In the United States:
Reserve, Kansas
Reserve, Kansas
Reserve is a city in Brown County, Kansas, United States. The population was 100 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Reserve is located at ....
Reserve, Louisiana
Reserve, Louisiana
Reserve is a census-designated place in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the east bank of the Mississippi River. The population was 9,111 at the 2000 census...
Reserve, Montana
Reserve, Montana
Reserve is a census-designated place in Sheridan County, Montana, United States. The population was 37 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Reserve is located at ....
Reserve, New Mexico
Reserve, New Mexico
Reserve is a village in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 387 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Catron County. Currently the village has a hotel, several stores and bars, and a health clinic...
Reserve, Wisconsin
Reserve, Wisconsin
Reserve is a census-designated place in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 436 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Reserve is located at ....
See also
Reservation
Reservation
Reservation may refer to:a thought or feeling dissuading one from a certain event* Indian reservation, in the United States* Indian reserve, in Canada* Reservation , a caveat to a treaty...
(disambiguation)
Preserve (disambiguation)
Reservoir (disambiguation)
Reservoir (disambiguation)
Reservoir may refer to:* Reservoir, artificial lake created by flooding land behind a dam* Reservoir, Victoria, suburb of Melbourne* Reservoir, California, former settlement* Petroleum reservoir, accumulation of oil or gas beneath the earth's surface...