in reserve

English

Prepositional phrase

in reserve

1. Stored and set aside for possible (future) use.

   Synonyms: reserve, spare, backup

   • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 755:

     The Schynige Platte Railway carries on its traffic with no more than four electric locomotives (with one steam locomotive in reserve).

Translations

set aside for future use

• Finnish: varalla (fi)
• French: de réserve, en réserve (fr)
• German: in Reserve, auf Reserve
• Italian: di riserva
• Romanian: în rezervă
• Spanish: de reserva

See also

• in store

Further reading

• “in reserve”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “in reserve”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “in reserve” (US) / “in reserve” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “in reserve”, in Collins English Dictionary.