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A promise to show up, broken so often restaurants now demand your credit card as collateral.
means A reservation is an arrangement to hold something—a table, a room, a seat—for you in advance, or, in another sense, a lingering doubt or a tract of land set aside for a specific group.
from From Latin 'reservare,' to keep back—'re-' (back) plus 'servare' (to keep, to guard, the same root that gives us 'preserve' and 'conserve'). It came through Old French 'reservation' into English meaning a thing kept in reserve. The legal and territorial senses—land 'reserved' for a particular people—and the mental sense of a held-back doubt both grew from that same core idea of holding something back rather than giving it away.
- no-show cost
- Restaurants lose billions yearly to phantom diners
- legal land
- US tribal reservations are sovereign nations
- oldest trick
- Roman inns held rooms with clay tokens
- bot battle
- Scalpers grab elite tables to resell
- double meaning
- It signals both certainty and quiet doubt
indian reservation — navajo nation in arizona, new mexico, utah - 27,000 square miles with 175,000 people