The Collaborative International Dictionary
Booking clerk \Book"ing clerk`\ A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.
WordNet
n. someone who sells tickets (e.g., theater seats or travel accommodations) [syn: ticket agent]
Usage examples of "booking clerk".
As he began dialing the number at the head of the High Commissioner's writing paper, a booking clerk announced that all remaining passengers should take their seats, as the gates were about to close.
Lefington was a small village and the booking clerk there should recognize the man from the detailed description.
The attendant, booking clerk, ticket-collector, porter and station-master are probably all one man.
He only understood what it was because he saw the image form on a little disk next to the booking clerk's screen.
Then the booking clerk looked out, said it was really high time, took the bank note, and slammed down on the counter the ticket he had been asked for and the change.
The booking clerk hardly looked at it, took in the major's uniform, the ribbon for the Military Cross and the clergyman's dog collar and booked him on board immediately.
The booking clerk was unaccustomed to dealing with crowds of such a dimension, and he told me afterwards, while wiping his manly brow, that what caused him so much trouble was the fact that these rustics paid their fares in such a lot of small money.
The booking clerk pushed a form at him and he signed it with a flourish.
He bought his ticket from a window which framed an Indian booking clerk in a blue turban, and then got a newspaper and stood, half-reading, observing the departures indicator over the paper's top edge.
But the advice of a friendly booking clerk had sent him up to Larne where he'd had better luck, obtaining a passage on the Tuesday morning boat on the short run to Stranraer in Scotland.
But the advice of a friendly booking clerk had sent him up to Larne where hed had better luck, obtaining a passage on the Tuesday morning boat on the short run to Stranraer in Scotland.
Harley himself was proprietor, manager, chief flying instructor, booking clerk and window cleaner.