in reserve

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English

Prepositional phrase

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
Ottoman Turkish: یدك (yedek)
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.

Anagrams

reversine, in reverse

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