Reserve

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Reserve or reserves may refer to:

Economics

• 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, held by central banks as a store of value
• Auction Reserve, a minimum amount of money bid required for a sale in an English auction

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

Sports

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

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

Land management

• Game reserve, land set aside for maintenance of wildlife for tourism or hunting
• Indian reserve, in Canada, a tract of land reserved for the use and benefit of a band
  • Indian reservation, an equivalent concept in the United States
• Nature reserve, a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest

Other uses

• Course reserve, library materials reserved for particular users
• Dynamic reserve, the set of metabolites that the organism can use for metabolic purposes
• Fuel reserve, an extra fuel tank, or extra fuel in the main fuel tank
• Reserve police officer, an auxiliary police officer
• Reserve study long-term capital budget planning tool
• Reserve wine, a wine that is specially designated
• Reserved (retail), a Polish clothing store chain, part of Poland-based LPP S.A. (Lubianiec Piechocki i Partnerzy)
• Stockpile, a reserve of bulk materials for future use

See also

• Reserve power, a power that may be exercised by the head of state without the approval of another branch of the government
• Reservation (disambiguation)
• Reserva (disambiguation)
• Preserve (disambiguation)
• Reservoir (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with Reserve
• All pages with a title containing Reserve