(idiomatic, law) The copyright holder of a creative work reserves all copyright-related rights, typically including the right to publish the work, to make derivative works of it, to distribute it, to make profit from it, to license a number of these rights to other people, and to forbid these uses by any unauthorized people, thus being entitled to take legal action against infringement.

(finance) A fund set up to ensure that dividends remain stable despite changes in a company's earnings

(literally, derogatory) To leave an Indian reservation to which one was restricted. / (US, politics) To break with one's party or group, usually temporarily.

past participle of go off the reservation

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of go off the reservation

simple past tense of go off the reservation

present participle of go off the reservation

The owner, or other copyright holder, of a work simultaneously reserves a number of copyright-related rights and waives a number of other copyright-related rights.

(finance, chiefly banking) A method of banking whereby the bank holds reserves that are only a fraction of its deposit liabilities.

A reserve used in cookie-jar accounting.