The phrase "alternative to reserving" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing options or substitutes for making a reservation, such as in travel or event planning contexts.
Example: "If you can't find a hotel room, consider an alternative to reserving a traditional hotel, like booking a vacation rental."
Alternatives: "substitute for booking" or "option instead of reserving".
For example, options abound in the Yosemite National Park area that are good alternatives to hard-to-reserve campsites inside the park.
In response, central banks in emerging economies bought dollars to stop their own currencies rising too fast.Could Fed swap lines serve as a less costly alternative to rampant reserve accumulation?
An alternative to crop reserves as a source of nonresistant genotypes is their mass culture and release (Alphey et al. 2007).
Microsoft tonight announced a new partnership with Creative Commons, the organization dedicated to providing content producers a legal alternative to "all rights reserved" copyright law, to offer a new tool for easy insertion of Creative Commons licenses into works created with Microsoft Office.
LONDON (Reuters) - British and Finnish scientists have found a way of generating renewable propane using a bacterium widely found in the human intestine and say the finding is a step to commercial production of a fuel that could one day be an alternative to fossil fuel reserves.
Over the centuries they have offered young people a learning alternative to academic schooling, which was reserved for the wealthy.
That is, the effects on the real economy are the same.In practice, the alternative to raising interest on reserves is not a massive sale of Treasury bills (which the Fed does not possess) but, rather, selling off a large portion of the assets accumulated since August 2008.
Because much of the military is fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq, the commission said, the country has "no reasonable alternative" to relying heavily on the Reserves to supplement the active-duty forces both at home and abroad.
As the inflationary costs of maintaining their link to the dollar grow, Asian countries may shift to more flexible regimes.Lastly, under Bretton Woods there was no real alternative to the dollar as a reserve currency.
