Economic
- Official gold reserves, held by central banks as a store of value
- Foreign exchange reserves, the foreign currency deposits held by central banks and monetary authorities
- Reserve currency, a currency which is held in significant quantities as part of foreign exchange reserves
- Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an emergency petroleum store maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy
- Fractional-reserve banking
- Bank reserves, holdings of deposits in central banks plus currency that is physically held in bank vaults
- Reserve (accounting), any part of shareholders' equity, except for basic share capital
- Reserve (project management), an element of the total project budget provided for realized project changes
- Mineral reserves, natural resources that are economically recoverable, e.g. Oil reserves
- Actuarial reserves, a liability equal to the present value of the future expected cash flows of a contingent event
- Reserve Primary Fund, a money market fund which "broke the buck"
- Auction Reserve, a minimum amount of money bid required for a sale in an English auction
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