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Booking

noun

Employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time. Synonym: engagement.

The act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group). Synonym: reservation.

Book

verb

(past & past part. booked; pres. part. booking)

Engage for a performance.

Arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance. Synonyms: hold, reserve. "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family" , "Please hold a table at Maxim's"

Record a charge in a police register.

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... established in the booking-office of Beuvry Station. The little narrow room was packed full of operators and vibrant with buzz and click. The Signal Clerk sat at a table in a tiny room just off the booking-office. Orderlies would rush in with messages, and the Clerk would instantly ...

— Adventures of a Despatch Rider • W. H. L. Watson

... couldn't understand my language, and I could not understand theirs. I got dreadfully lonesome. I was so down-hearted and homesick I wished a hundred times I never had died. I turned back, of course. About noon next day, I got back at last and was on hand at the booking-office once more. Says ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... a ticket for Penryn, and, after waiting until he had left the booking office, took one myself for the same station. I watched him as he chose his compartment, and then entered the next. It was crowded, of course, with holiday-seekers; but the only person that I noticed at first was the ...

— Dead Man's Rock • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... building Dick was taken first. It contained only one room and was evidently used as a booking and record office. ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops - Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche • H. Irving Hancock

... make arrangements that very hour for immediate departure. He felt convinced that a more genial mood would possess him were he to diminish even by a few miles the distance that separated him from the home for which he longed. It was necessary to hasten, so that he might be sure of booking a place in the diligence. It was to leave at eventide by the eastward road. There was little else to do, for he really need not bother to pay a farewell visit to Baron Perotti. Half an hour would suffice for the packing of all his possessions. He thought of the two suits, the shabbier ...

— Casanova's Homecoming • Arthur Schnitzler

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