a person who makes or presents doubts, limitations or exceptions
2. business
a person who makes reservations or bookings of e.g. hotel rooms, tickets
adjective
3. politics, US
characteristic of a person who makes or presents doubts, limitations or exceptions
reservationist in American English
(ˌrezərˈveiʃənɪst)
noun
a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk
Word origin
[1915–20, Amer.; reservation + -ist]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: GI, camouflage, collage, costar, decoder-ist is a suffix of nouns, often corresponding to verbs ending in -ize or nouns ending in -ism, that denote a person who practices or is concerned with something, or holds certainprinciples, doctrines, etc. Other words that use the affix -ist include: Thomist, apologist, dramatist, machinist, realist