Reserve
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Reserve (sometimes Reserves) may refer to:
- Course reserve, library materials reserved for particular users
- Dynamic reserve, the set of metabolites that the organism can use for metabolic purposes
- Reserve clause, in North American professional sports contracts
- Game reserve, land set aside for maintenance of wildlife for tourism or hunting
- Fuel reserve, an extra fuel tank, or extra fuel in the main fuel tank
- Recreation reserve, a park with sporting or other recreational facilities
- Reserve stockpile, bulk materials reserved for future use
- Reserved decision, where a judge takes time to review evidence and the law and delivers a decision at a later time
- Nature reserve, a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest,
- Indian reserve, in Canada, a tract of land reserved for the use and benefit of a band
- Reserve team, the second team fielded by a sports club, often football-soccer
- Economic
- Official gold reserves, held by central banks as a store of value
- Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an emergency petroleum store maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy
- Fractional-reserve banking
- Bank reserves, holdings of deposits in central banks plus currency that is physically held in bank vaults
- Foreign exchange reserves, the foreign currency deposits held by central banks and monetary authorities
- Reserve currency, a currency which is held in significant quantities as part of foreign exchange reserves
- Reserve (accounting), any part of shareholders' equity, except for basic share capital
- Natural resource reserves, natural resources that are economically recoverable, e.g. Oil reserves
- Actuarial reserves, a liability equal to the present value of the future expected cash flows of a contingent event
- Military
- Military reserve force, part-time military personnel and civilians who are available to fight when a nation mobilizes for war
- Military reserve, military personnel not committed to battle so that they are available to address unforeseen situations
- Reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States, "the Guard and Reserves"
- War Reserve Stock, a collection of warfighting material held in reserve in pre-positioned storage to be used if needed in wartime
- Placenames
[edit] See also
- Reservation (disambiguation)
- Preserve (disambiguation)
- Reservoir (disambiguation)