reserving
- 1Present participle and gerund of reserve.
The hotel is reserving the corner suite for returning guests.
Reserving judgment until all the evidence was in, the panel postponed its decision.
Note
Every sense of the verb runs through this -ing form, and each takes an object: you are always reserving something. The keeping-for-later and booking senses also allow two objects, so reserving a seat for her can become reserving her a seat. As a gerund it sits close to the nouns reserve and reservation. Reserving names the act in progress, and reservation names the arrangement it produces.
reserving is a form of reserve
reserve, verb: To book in advance, arranging for something to be held and set aside for your later use. Full entry
- Spelling
- reserve → reserving: drop the e, add -ing
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