to have a reserve of strength

  • 1reserve — re|serve1 [ rı zɜrv ] noun ** ▸ 1 supply of something ▸ 2 player not chosen ▸ 3 soldiers not fighting ▸ 4 shy behavior ▸ 5 area for animals ▸ 6 reserve price ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) count usually plural a supply of something that a country or an… …

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  • 2reserve — re|serve1 W3 [rıˈzə:v US ə:rv] v [T] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: reserver, from Latin reservare to keep back , from servare to keep ] 1.) to arrange for a place in a hotel, restaurant, plane etc to be kept for you to use at a… …

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  • 3reserve — 1 verb (T) 1 to arrange for a place in a hotel, restaurant, plane etc to be kept for you: Do you have to reserve tickets in advance? | I d like to reserve a table for two. 2 to keep something so that it can be used by a particular person or for a …

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  • 4Strength athletics in the United Kingdom and Ireland — Strength athletics in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has a long history going back many centuries before the televisation of strongman competitions in the 1970s. The ancient heritage of the sport in the United Kingdom and Ireland lies in a… …

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  • 5Reserve wine — is a term given to a specific wine to imply that is of a higher quality than usual, or a wine that has been aged before being sold, or both. Traditionally winemakers would reserve some of their best wine rather than sell it immediately, coining… …

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  • 6reserve — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 supply of sth available to be used in the future ADJECTIVE ▪ great, huge, large, substantial, vast ▪ adequate, sufficient ▪ …

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  • 7Reserve currency — A reserve currency (or anchor currency) is a currency which is held in significant quantities by many governments and institutions as part of their foreign exchange reserves. It also tends to be the international pricing currency for products… …

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  • 8reserve */*/ — I UK [rɪˈzɜː(r)v] / US [rɪˈzɜrv] noun Word forms reserve : singular reserve plural reserves 1) a) [countable, usually plural] a supply of something that a country or an organization can use when they need to Germany s coal reserves were… …

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  • 9reserve — [rɪˈzɜːv] noun I 1) [C] a supply of something that a country, an organization, or a person can use Norway s oil reserves[/ex] We discovered reserves of strength that we didn t realize we had.[/ex] 2) [C] a player who has not been chosen to play… …

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  • 10have — verb Have is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑hotel, ↑library, ↑mixture, ↑patient, ↑room, ↑sentence, ↑tape, ↑word Have is used with these nouns as the object: ↑A level, ↑ability, ↑ …

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