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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
booking
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a booking fee (also a service fee American English) (= a charge you pay when buying a ticket)
▪ Tickets for the concert are £45, plus a booking fee.
booking office
confirm a booking/reservation/appointment
▪ I am writing to confirm a booking for a single room for the night of 6 June.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
advance
▪ Perhaps the most widely used online service is travel planning, both to research a destination and to do advance bookings.
▪ It will also repay advance bookings.
▪ Fifty guaranteed seats once a week will give the advance bookings a most healthy look.
■ NOUN
block
▪ Dress is formal and block bookings are available.
form
▪ Booking By post Complete booking form on facing page for all tickets by post.
▪ No persons other than those stated on the booking form may occupy the property.
▪ For further information and a booking form please contact Alex Ankrah at the Arts Council.
▪ Use your own container for this if you wish - details of suitable ones will be sent with your booking form.
▪ Dates Complete the booking form, and send with full payment due.
▪ Please indicate your request on the booking form.
▪ Your Reservation On receipt of your completed booking form and deposit we will reserve your holiday.
▪ There is also a limit of £7,500 per booking form.
hall
▪ Totally mystified by his experience, he crept back to the booking hall and tried to sleep.
▪ But on the second landing I found small groups of them with machine-guns lazily overlooking the booking hall.
▪ Melissa took her by the arm and piloted her through the booking hall.
▪ Below the window a crocodile of children in striped caps marched across the booking hall.
▪ I saw an advertisement for it in the booking hall.
holiday
▪ Spring is peak time for holiday bookings, but they have dropped by up to 30 % in some areas.
▪ Nigel Cope Monthly summer holiday bookings compared with bookings for same month last year.
▪ Your insurance premium is payable when you make your holiday booking.
office
▪ The parcel office and booking office will be available for photography aided by staff in period dress.
▪ The driver had not seen anyone on the platform and neither had the booking office clerk.
▪ Contact your local London Underground booking office for details.
▪ The original station in Colombo had twin towers which housed the first and second-class booking offices at their bases.
▪ The first objective is the provision of a new souvenir shop, refreshment room and booking office.
▪ If printed in time tickets may be available a few days ahead of the programme from Henley and Twyford booking offices.
▪ Under this method, candidates buy a voting slip from a booking office.
system
▪ It can continue to offer a central booking system as long as governors wish to use it.
▪ But the number of emigrants forced the introduction of booking systems, although a booked passage did not guarantee comfort.
▪ So before Forte Travelodge installed a new booking system it set up a trial in a mock-up of its operations centre.
▪ As a result we operate a booking system which aims to give as many people as possible an opportunity to play.
telephone
▪ Visa facilities are available for telephone bookings.
▪ Riverside Theatre Personal and telephone bookings can be made in the Riverside Theatre on performance evenings only between 5.30 p.m. -8 p.m.
▪ Paying cash had the added benefit of leaving no record of our visit except a pencilled telephone booking under two untraceable names.
■ VERB
accept
▪ Visa and Access are accepted for credit card bookings.
▪ We accept cruising yacht bookings on condition that the levels of experience described on your booking form are correct.
▪ As long as you tell us, and don't travel against medical advice, we can accept your booking.
▪ Finally, who is delegated to accept and correlate bookings and who is available to supervise evening and possibly weekend activities?
cancel
▪ If you have to cancel a booking, please let us know as soon as possible.
▪ It was after you decided that we'd have to cancel our bookings for Venice next March because of the exchange rate.
▪ On two consecutive years the venue, one used for many conferences, tried to cancel our booking.
complete
▪ Dates Complete the booking form, and send with full payment due.
confirm
▪ To confirm the booking, you will be required to sign the completed Booking Form and pay the appropriate deposit.
▪ Cancellation cover applies as soon as you have confirmed your booking with us.
▪ If you wish to telephone us, we will endeavour to confirm your booking immediately.
▪ Arthur went to confirm the booking, and gather furniture for us.
▪ They will confirm the booking by sending you an invoice and detailed joining instructions.
▪ The hotel's response in writing confirming the booking is an acceptance of the guest's offer to contract.
make
▪ Once you have made your booking and paid a deposit, then the cost of your holiday can not be changed.
▪ Please enquire when making your booking.
▪ Your insurance premium is payable when you make your holiday booking.
▪ Please telephone the hotel of your choice to make your booking.
▪ We hope these improved facilities will make booking tickets easier.
▪ Graham's problems were made worse by the booking of central defender Steve Bould, who now faces suspension.
send
▪ Please do not send bookings for the free places direct to the two colleges.
▪ Use your own container for this if you wish - details of suitable ones will be sent with your booking form.
▪ A list of local accommodation can be sent with your booking form.
▪ When costs and details are finalised, they will be sent out with booking confirmation.
▪ If you haven't already sent off your booking form do so today, and see the next Journal for more details.
▪ Please send the attached booking form to the above address with a stamped, addressed envelope.
take
▪ Our staff will be pleased to answer your enquiries and take your booking.
▪ Dad says he's going to start taking bookings.
▪ A new service for golfers on the Algarve coast aims to take the hassle out of booking tee times on holiday courses.
▪ If the guest took up the booking, the deposit was part payment of the full price.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
advance planning/warning/booking etc
▪ For course details details and advance booking forms contact:.
▪ However, Redmond and Manschreck acknowledged that they had not billed for or received any money for the advance planning.
▪ If we could list those we'd have advance warning of shortage problems on the assembly lines two months before they occur.
▪ It will also repay advance bookings.
▪ Perhaps the most widely used online service is travel planning, both to research a destination and to do advance bookings.
▪ Significant moments in history do not happen without some kind of advance warning.
▪ The most obvious features are the tall watchtowers scattered across the Silk Road to provide advance warning of Xiongnu attack.
block booking/voting
▪ Dress is formal and block bookings are available.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Advance bookings for the show currently total more than £100,000.
▪ Cheaper prices are available on early bookings.
▪ I'd like to cancel my booking, please.
▪ You can make a provisional booking over the phone.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the number of emigrants forced the introduction of booking systems, although a booked passage did not guarantee comfort.
▪ Early booking is recommended as numbers are limited on many of the tours.
▪ If the guest took up the booking, the deposit was part payment of the full price.
▪ If you have to cancel a booking, please let us know as soon as possible.
▪ Nigel Cope Monthly summer holiday bookings compared with bookings for same month last year.
▪ Only one total bill will be prepared for any party booking.
▪ Please send the attached booking form to the above address with a stamped, addressed envelope.
▪ The booking sheets showed clearly the public felt there was no difference.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Booking

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.

Wiktionary
booking

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
booking
  1. n. employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer" [syn: engagement]

  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: reservation]

Wikipedia
Booking

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 (manhwa)

Booking is a monthly manhwa anthology published by the South Korean Haksanpub.

Booking (clubbing)

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.