Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Booking office \Book"ing of`fice\
An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.
An office where passage tickets are sold. [Eng.]
Usage examples of "booking office".
He checked through customs and took a taxi to the Cunard booking office on the dockside.
After circling Tulle and finding the station, he parked the car unobtrusively three streets away and carried his two suitcases and grip the half-mile to the railway booking office.
Somebody told Burt Bender about Pat's offer, and Burt hotfoots it over to the Orpheum booking office.
They filed silently past the closed bookstall, the freight office, the booking office, flitted quickly into the shadows beyond and stopped.
Grass already was growing through the cracked concrete surface and several small bushes had established themselves around the entrance to what had been the booking office.
He could be the Lithuanian with the shapeless leather bag or the man with the briefcase or any one of the people who were inside the booking office or one of the waiting-rooms, and even if I could check all of them there'd be nothing to tell me who they were.
Raban stopped because he had palpitations, then he walked quickly along the park pool, went along a narrow, badly lighted path between large shrubs, rushed into an open place with many empty benches leaning against little trees, then went more slowly through an opening in the railings into the street, crossed it, leapt through the station entrance, after a while found the booking office, and had to knock for a while on the iron shutter.
Half an hour before the train came in the little booking office was crowded with country passengers, all bent on visiting their friends in the great Metropolis.
At the railway booking office he stood for nearly half an hour, reading the long lists of closely printed timetables pasted to the wall.
The booking office was closed because upon this single-track line there were only two trains a day, but the station-master lived beside the station in a weatherboard house, and he asked there for Mr Shulkin.