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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOOK'ING, ppr. Registering in a book.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer" [syn: engagement, booking]
2: the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made the booking" [syn: booking, reservation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1823 1. the act of one that books 2. an engagement or scheduled performance 3. reservation 1c

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. the act or an instance of booking or reserving a seat, a room in a hotel, etc.; a reservation (see BOOK v. 1). Phrases and idioms: booking-clerk an official selling tickets at a railway station. booking-hall (or -office) Brit. a room or area at a railway station in which tickets are sold.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Book Book, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booked; p. pr. & vb. n. Booking.] 1. To enter, write, or register in a book or list. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. --Shak. 2. To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater. 3. To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. [Colloq.] Here I am booked for three days more in Paris. --Charles Reade.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(bookings) A booking is the arrangement that you make when you book something such as a hotel room, a table at a restaurant, a theatre seat, or a place on public transport. I suggest you tell him there was a mistake over his late booking. = reservation N-COUNT: usu with supp

Moby Thesaurus

appointment, bespeaking, borscht circuit, briefing, cataloging, chronicling, circuit, date, employment, engagement, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, hiring, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, listing, logging, matriculation, playing engagement, posting, preengagement, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, reservation, retainment, run, stand, tabulation, taking on, tour, vaudeville circuit