3 N‑COUNT A reserve is a supply of something that is available for use when it is needed. □ The Gulf has 65 per cent of the world's oil reserves.
4 N‑COUNT In sports, a reserve is someone who is available to play as part of a team if one of the members is ill or cannot play. [mainly BRIT ] □ He ended up as a reserve, but still qualified for a team gold medal. in AM, use substitute 5 N‑COUNT A nature reserve is an area of land where the animals, birds, and plants are officially protected. □ Marine biologists are calling for Cardigan Bay to be created a marine nature reserve to protect the dolphins.
6 N‑UNCOUNT If someone shows reserve , they keep their feelings hidden. □ His natural reserve made him appear self-conscious.
7 PHRASE If you have something in reserve , you have it available for use when it is needed. □ The company needs to keep some cash in reserve.
8 to reserve judgment → see judgment
9 to reserve the right → see right ➌
re|served /r I zɜː r vd/
1 ADJ Someone who is reserved keeps their feelings hidden. □ He was unemotional, quite quiet, and reserved.
2 ADJ A table in a restaurant or a seat in a theatre that is reserved is being kept for someone rather than given or sold to anyone else. □ Seats, or sometimes entire tables, were reserved.
re|se rve price (reserve prices ) N‑COUNT A reserve price is the lowest price which is acceptable to the owner of property being auctioned or sold. [BRIT , BUSINESS ]
re|serv|ist /r I zɜː r v I st/ (reservists ) N‑COUNT Reservists are soldiers who are not serving in the regular army of a country, but who can be called to serve whenever they are needed.
res|er|voir /re zə r vwɑː r / (reservoirs )
1 N‑COUNT A reservoir is a lake that is used for storing water before it is supplied to people.
2 N‑COUNT [adj N ] A reservoir of something is a large quantity of it that is available for use when needed. □ …the huge oil reservoir beneath the Kuwaiti desert. [Also + of ]
re|set /riː se t/ (resets , resetting ) The form reset is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle. VERB If you reset a machine or device, you adjust or set it, so that it is ready to work again or ready to perform a particular function. □ [V n] As soon as you arrive at your destination, step out of the aircraft and reset your wrist-watch.
re|set|tle /riːse t ə l/ (resettles , resettling , resettled ) VERB If people are resettled by a government or organization, or if people resettle , they move to a different place to live because they are no longer able or allowed to stay in the area where they used to live. □ [be V -ed] The refugees were put in camps in Italy before being resettled. □ [V ] In 1990, 200,000 Soviet Jews resettled on Israeli territory.
re|set|tle|ment /riːse t ə lmənt/ N‑UNCOUNT Resettlement is the process of moving people to a different place to live, because they are no longer allowed to stay in the area where they used to live. □ Only refugees are eligible for resettlement abroad. [Also + of ]
re|shape /riː ʃe I p/ (reshapes , reshaping , reshaped ) VERB To reshape something means to change its structure or organization. □ [V n] If they succeed on Europe, then they will have reshaped the political and economic map of the world. ● re|shap|ing N‑SING □ [+ of ] This thesis led to a radical reshaping of Labour policies.
re|shuf|fle (reshuffles , reshuffling , reshuffled ) The noun is pronounced /riː ʃʌf ə l/. The verb is pronounced /riː ʃʌ f ə l/. VERB When a political leader reshuffles the ministers in a government, he or she changes their jobs so that some of the ministers change their responsibilities. [mainly BRIT ] □ [V n] The prime minister told reporters this morning that he plans to reshuffle his entire cabinet. ● N‑COUNT [usu sing] Reshuffle is also a noun. □ He has carried out a partial cabinet reshuffle.
re|side /r I za I d/ (resides , residing , resided )
1 VERB If someone resides somewhere, they live there or are staying there. [FORMAL ] □ [V prep/adv] Margaret resides with her invalid mother in a London suburb.
2 VERB [no cont] If a quality resides in something, the thing has that quality. [FORMAL ] □ [V + in ] Happiness does not reside in strength or money.
resi|dence /re z I dəns/ (residences )
1 N‑COUNT A residence is a house where people live. [FORMAL ] □ …hotels and private residences.
2 N‑UNCOUNT Your place of residence is the place where you live. [FORMAL ] □ …differences among women based on age, place of residence and educational levels.
3 N‑UNCOUNT Someone's residence in a particular place is the fact that they live there or that they are officially allowed to live there. □ They had entered the country and had applied for permanent residence.
4 → see also hall of residence
5 PHRASE If someone is in residence in a particular place, they are living there. □ Windsor is open to visitors when the Royal Family is not in residence.
6 PHRASE An artist or writer in residence is one who teaches in an institution such as a university or theatre company. □ Wakoski is writer in residence at Michigan State University.
resi|den|cy /re z I dənsi/ (residencies )