Crossword clues for booking
booking
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Book \Book\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booked (b[oo^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Booking.]
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To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds.
--Shak. 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.
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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. to make an official record of a charge against (a suspect in a crime); -- performed by police.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting. 2 A reservation for a service, such as accommodation in an hotel. 3 The engagement of a performer for a particular performance. 4 (context sports English) The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play. 5 (context legal English) The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording identifying data of a suspect following arrest. vb. (present participle of book English)
WordNet
n. employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer" [syn: engagement]
the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made the booking" [syn: reservation]
Wikipedia
Booking may refer to:
- Booking (manhwa), a Korean comics anthology magazine published by Haksan
- Booking (professional wrestling), the laying out of the plot before a professional wrestling match
- An accounting system a.k.a. double-entry bookkeeping system
- Booking (clubbing), the practise of forced socialisation in South Korean clubs
- Booking.com, a website for arranging hotel reservations
- Booking, scheduling services performed by a talent agent
- The noting of an offending player in professional sports, when they are shown a Penalty card
Booking is a monthly manhwa anthology published by the South Korean Haksanpub.
Booking ( Korean: 부킹) is a common practice in South Korean night clubs of forced socialization. Booking is a practice in which waiters bring female patrons, sometimes forcibly, to a table to sit with men. Both parties are free to leave at any time, or depending on mutual interest, they can continue to sit together and drink and talk. Although outwardly similar, to outsiders, these are not hostess clubs, and although the men are expected to tip and pay their waiters to bring women to their table, the women are not employees nor are they prostitutes but fellow clubbers.
Usage examples of "booking".
The new hue, plus a thirdhand stereo system stocked with appropriate pop classics by the Beatles, Jimmy Buffet, and the Junkanoo Joke-sters, drove the female vacationers into raptures of nostalgia and ensured full bookings for the season.
Both displayed color booking photos of Raynard Waits, and the articles played up the hunt for the mad killer, the formation of an LAPD task force, and a toll-free telephone tip line just for finding Waits.
Fat Fred is now claiming to be Irish and has opened another booking shop in Parramatta Town, where the Irish bets their weekly wages on their own champion, the Bolt.
But when I accessed the bookings for the month of March, I saw that during the week of the 17th through the 23rdthe latter date just ten days from my birthdaywe were scheduled to perform in Binh Khoi.
I thought this must be a mistakeVang had probably been thinking of Binh Khoi and my father while recording a new booking and had inadvertently put down the wrong name.
A clerk in a ticket agency in North Germany sent a message to say a certain bakery proprietor in Bremerhaven had just confirmed bookings on a winter cruise for himself and his wife.
Frank Gannon, the man responsible for booking him, had been a segment producer on Letterman for just two years.
There were six photos and they included the booking photo of Louis Ross Roulet and five other men whose mug shots I had culled out of my archive boxes.
Oddly enough, in her five years of booking comedians, no one had ever asked her that.
Denver to see her sister, but Merrel and Roy and the kids were at their new condo in Vail, flyfishing, and given the difficulty of booking flights over the holiday weekend, Evon would not have gotten there for much more than twenty-four hours.
They were standing beside the small office in the full-gee zone that handled bookings for travel to Earth, the Moon, and the other stations and habitats in orbit.
The brisk couple with their two spaniels might well be booking a retirement party or a thirtieth wedding anniversary.
Another useful nugget was that the tigers traveled with Daniel and Charles only for booking dates that lasted at least a week.
The leaflets were beginning to yield some resulys, the five of them worked non-stop, cooking, packing and unpacking the van, delivering, serving and clearing up, taking more bookings.
The man said that the secret to success was how quickly a new hotel could establish a pattern of advance bookings.