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Definition of Bookmaking
1. Noun. The art or profession of determining odds and receiving and paying off bets, especially bets on the outcome of sporting events. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bookmaking
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookmaking
Literary usage of Bookmaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society by Bibliographical Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"The churchwardens' books and other similar accounts help us in a measure to
estimate the cost of bookmaking and bookbinding and to understand how, ..."
2. The Lamp by Charles Scribner's Sons (1903)
"TYPOGRAPHY AND bookmaking BY FREDERIC SHERMAN AS an example of fine bookmaking
the Riverside edition of Spenser's "Prothalamion and Epithalamion" ranks ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1876)
"THE BYWAYS OF bookmaking. EVERT literature possesses a body of rules teaching
the poet and the dramatist what to avoid ; and an ingenious Frenchman once ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1877)
"In an exposition of betting and bookmaking there is much to be said which must
be new and interesting to the general public. There are few outside the ..."
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