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Booked

Book \Book\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booked (b[oo^]kt); 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; 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.

  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.

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

Booked

Booked \Booked\, a.

  1. Registered.

  2. On the way; destined. [Colloq.]

  3. reserved in advance; held for future use. See reserve[2].

Wiktionary
booked

vb. (en-past of: book)

WordNet
booked

adj. reserved in advance [syn: engaged, set-aside(p)]

Usage examples of "booked".

Derringer was booked over the weekend, so his case would be called in the Justice Center arraignment court this afternoon for a release hearing.

The proprietor had never heard of Michael Bowden or anyone named Sam, but they were booked with a large party.

She booked a room, facing out the receptionist who smirked as she handed her the key, and as she walked back to join Sasanov, Davina thought suddenly that she had no qualm of embarrassment in paying for the use of a bed for a couple of hours.

He walked back up the Shambles and Giblet Walk to the Market Square and booked in at the Handyman Arms.

He told us that on arriving at Leghorn, and finding no Betty there, he had discovered that her trunk had been booked to Rome, and that the officer to whom it belonged had hired a horse, leaving a watch as a pledge for it.

Engagement with Larin Stevens, booked for overnight during second period.

I had booked a table for lunch in the flower-strewn garden at the Locanda Cipriani.

Maggie had been due to conduct a meeting of the Camden Town coven in one of the upstairs rooms tonight, but her secretary had muddled the dates and they had found themselves double booked with the Norman Wisdom Fan Club, so Arthur Bryant offered to buy them all drinks.

But if Enron could switch the accounting, big profits from the contracts could be booked right away.

Using its aggressive accounting, Enron had long ago booked the total, lofty value of the gas contracts as profit.

Then, thanks to mark-to-market accounting, most of that could be booked as income.

Hotel Allegretto, returned to London, and booked the whole clan passage on the next steamer home.

He turned off the Normandy autoroute before Paris and booked in to a motel in the Valley de Chevreuse: Versailles PJ confirm that.

The bigger hotels report being booked the week of Bernet - lots of conventions - and they do keep records.

He showed them the meticulous books he kept, the receipts for the equipment they rented, the ongoing calendar for work planned and booked.