单词 | reserveless |
释义 | reservelessadj. 1. Without reserve or restraint; unconditional. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [adjective] > without a reserve reserveless1806 1806 J. Graeme in Lyre of Love II. 40 The listening Maid..forsakes the downy bed, And springs reserveless to his longing arms. 1841 F. Jones tr. K. W. R. von Rotteck Hist. World IV. 29 Better had they advised him to reserveless, intimate union with the well-thinking of the national assembly. 1910 W. L. Phelps Ess. Mod. Novelists i. 25 No novelist has ever given us..more attractive glimpses into the reserveless intimacy of the affairs of the hearth. 1954 in P. Horgan Great River II. 720 The country requires from her sons the unlimited decision, the reserveless sacrifices, which circumstances..claim for its salvation. 2004 M. Grau Of Divine Econ. iii. 100 Millennia of Christian theologies that have read the emptying and reserveless giving, especially of women, as the ultimate gain in the divine economy. 2. Without reserves (in various senses). ΚΠ 1877 H. H. Gibbs in B. Price Chapters on Pract. Polit. Econ. (1878) 533 The great mischief of her [sc. the Bank of England's] drifting into a Reserveless position might have happened to her in 1866. 1942 Evening Standard (Uniontown, Pa.) 13 May 1/1 To open a second front in Europe and make the still powerful but now nearly reserveless German armies fight both front and rear. 1965 K. S. Davis Experience of War xv. 602 When..the U.S. Ninth attacked, it encountered a weakened, virtually reserveless enemy. 2005 in A. B. Deolalikar Poverty, Growth, & Safety Nets 224 Policies cause employment and wage-rates to fall just as staples prices rise (as in the dry season), thus doubly threatening the reserveless poor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1806 |
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