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/bˈʊkɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Book v. t. (past & past part. booked; pres. part. booking)

To enter, write, or register in a book or list. "Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds."

To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; to reserve (2); also, to make an arrangement for a reservation; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater; to book a reservation at a restaurant.

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."

To make an official record of a charge against (a suspect in a crime); performed by police.

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Etymology of 'Booking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Booking" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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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