{
  "id": "reserved.allocation",
  "term": "reserved",
  "sense": "allocation",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "reserved",
  "domain": "reserved",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a place that is kept for a person during a time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "The place is kept for a person during a time.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "designated access",
      "exclusion of others",
      "temporal commitment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "At Tokyo Disneyland, a FastPass kiosk held a 3:45 PM return slot for the Haunted Mansion ride.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Telecommunication Union reserved radio frequencies 14.0–14.35 MHz for amateur satellite use.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Harvard University keeps John Harvard's statue in the Yard reserved for photo-taking by tourists daily from 9 AM to 5 PM.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "free.unconstrained",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "park.place"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "reserved"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added 'people.social' to components as it is essential to the concept of reserving — reservation inherently involves a person for whom the allocation is made. The definition correctly captures the eme"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reserved.allocation"
}