Reserve

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Reserve or reserves may refer to:

Places

  • Reserve, Kansas, a US city
  • Reserve, Louisiana, a census-designated place in St. John the Baptist Parish
  • Reserve, Montana, a census-designated place in Sheridan County
  • Reserve, New Mexico, a US village
  • Reserve, Wisconsin, a census-designated place in the town of Couderay
  • Reserve Mines, a community in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada

Auctions

  • Auction reserve, a minimum amount of money bid required for a sale, e.g., in an English auction
  • No-reserve auction (NR), also known as an absolute auction, an auction in which the item for sale will be sold regardless of price
  • Reserve price, the underlying concept

Economics and finance

  • Reserve (accounting), any part of shareholders' equity, except for basic share capital
  • Actuarial reserves, a liability equal to the present value of the future expected cash flows of a contingent event
  • 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
  • Mineral reserve, natural resources that are economically recoverable
  • Official gold reserves, gold held by central banks as a store of value
  • Reserve study, a long-term capital budget planning tool

Land management

  • Game reserve, land set aside for maintenance of wildlife, for tourism or hunting
  • Indian reserve, a tract of land reserved for the use and benefit of a group of North American Indians
    • Indian colony, the concept in the United States
    • Indian reservation, equivalent concept in the United States
    • Indian reserve, equivalent concept in Canada
    • Urban Indian reserve, equivalent concept in Canada
  • Nature reserve, a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest
  • Open space reserve, an area of protected or conserved land or water on which development is indefinitely set aside

Military

  • Military reserve, military units not initially committed to battle
  • Military reserve force, a military organization composed of citizens who combine a military role with a civilian career
  • Reserve fleet, a collection of partially or fully decommissioned naval vessels not currently needed.

Sports

  • Reserve (sport), a player not in the starting lineup
  • Injured reserve list, a list of injured players temporarily unable to play
  • Reserve clause, part of a player contract in North American professional sports
  • Reserve team, the second team fielded by a sports club

Other uses

See also

  • Hold
  • Layaway
  • Native Reserve (disambiguation)
  • Preserve (disambiguation)
  • Reserva (disambiguation)
  • Reservation (disambiguation)
  • Reservoir (disambiguation)
  • Western Reserve (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Reserve
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