2. Adjective. Having had more seats sold or guaranteed then were available. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overbooked
1. overbook [v] - See also: overbook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbooked
Literary usage of Overbooked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Coaching Age by Stanley Harris (1885)
"I have only known one other instance of what I may call a coach being overbooked
inside, and that happened to a coachman on quite a different road, ..."
2. National Computer Security Conference, 1993 (16th) Proceedings: Information by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Examples are used cheques, out-of-date orders, or overbooked reservations.
While some kinds of replay threats are of semantic nature such as an overbooked ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... exactly such a vehicle аз is described in " N. & Q.," but its use was confined
to such times as the heavy six-horse coach was overbooked for insides, ..."
4. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1899)
"... Navy are mentioned here, since news filters very uncertainly from these parts,
and the Navy's work in the interest of commerce should not be overbooked. ..."
5. Adult Literacy And New Technologies: Tools For A Lifetime by Office of Technology Assessment (1994)
"Classes are often overbooked, library resources are limited, and hours and space
available to inmates for 97 Nancy Kober, "Profiles of Major Federal ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1854)
"... to fill than the Halls of Congress or the cabinet councils of the nation, at
a time too of great delicacy and embarrassment, had been overbooked. ..."
7. Responding to Probation and Parole Violations by Dale G. Parent (1994)
"Final hearings for probation violations must be placed on court calendars that
often are already overbooked, and participants in the final hearing—judges, ..."
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