to set a reserve

  • 61set aside — phrasal 1. to put to one side ; discard 2. to reserve for a purpose ; save 3. dismiss 4. annul, overrule …

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  • 62reserve — a part of a quota set aside at the beginning of the fishing season to allow for uncertainties in estimating the catch …

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  • 63set aside — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To save] Syn. put away, reserve, lay up; see maintain 3 , save 3 . 2. [To discard] Syn. abrogate, repeal, reject; see cancel 2 , discard . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To put an end to, especially formally and with… …

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  • 64set by — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To reserve for the future: keep, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put by, salt away, save (up). See KEEP, SAVE …

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  • 65set aside — allocate; separate; put in reserve; discard, annul …

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  • 66reserve — I. v. a. 1. Keep, hold, retain, husband, set by, lay by, lay up, store up, withhold. 2. Except, make an exception of. II. n. 1. Reservation, something reserved. 2. Constraint, restraint, backwardness, cautious behavior, coldness, closeness,… …

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  • 67Federal Reserve System — a U.S. federal banking system that is under the control of a central board of governors (Federal Reserve Board) with a central bank (Federal Reserve Bank) in each of 12 districts and that has wide powers in controlling credit and the flow of… …

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  • 68Instruction set — An instruction set, or instruction set architecture (ISA), is the part of the computer architecture related to programming, including the native data types, instructions, registers, addressing modes, memory architecture, interrupt and exception… …

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  • 69keep in reserve — index fund, garner, hoard, hold (possess), reserve, set aside (reserve) Burton s Legal Thesaurus …

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  • 70initial reserve — Reserve Re*serve , n. [F. r[ e]serve.] 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation. [1913 Webster] However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations. Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. That which …

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