reserve clause

1. 1.

   a clause that used to be part of the contract with a professional athlete extending the contract for a year beyond its expiration

   “the reserve clause was used to bind players to a particular ball club”

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   Part ofcontract

Questions about reserve clause

What does reserve clause mean?

reserve clause means "a clause that used to be part of the contract with a professional athlete extending the contract for a year beyond its expiration".

Is reserve clause a common word?

reserve clause is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.