Lexic.us

Definition of Booking

1. Noun. Employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time. "The play had bookings throughout the summer"

2. Noun. The act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group). "Wondered who had made the booking"

Definition of Booking

1. Verb. (present participle of book) ¹

2. Noun. The act or process of writing something down in (a) book(s), e.g. in accounting ¹

3. Noun. A reservation for a service, such as accommodation in an hotel. ¹

4. Noun. The engagement of a performer for a particular performance. ¹

5. Noun. (sports) 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. ¹

6. Noun. (legal) The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording identifying data of a suspect following arrest. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Booking

1. an engagement [n -S] - See also: engagement

Lexicographical Neighbors of Booking

bookfell bookful bookfuls bookhoard bookholder bookholders bookhood bookhound bookhounds bookhouse

bookhouses bookie bookier bookies bookiest booking (current term) booking agent booking clerk bookings bookish

bookishly bookishness bookishnesses bookjacket bookjackets bookkeep bookkeeper bookkeepers bookkeeping bookkeepings

Literary usage of Booking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Henry Irving by Austin Brereton (1908)
"Hamlet" revived—Irving introduces the booking of pit and gallery— The idea in advance of the times—It is abandoned—Cost of the experiment —Irving's views on ..."

2. Selections from the Judicial Records of Renfrewshire: Illustrative of the by William Hector (1878)
"ENURE of land by booking is peculiar to Paisley, and is limited to a certain portion of lands within the Burgh called Common Lands, consisting of about 166 ..."

3. The Girl and the Job by Helen Christene Hoerle, Florence B.. Saltzberg (1919)
"THE booking AGENT A booking agent for a theatrical firm arranges the routes for ... This means that a booking agent must be familiar with the railroad and ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"1518; booking rectory, £--t\. 1522: rectory of St. Dionis Back- ... 1029 ; Had- ley church, in deanery of booking, 15 May 1532 ; archdeaconry of Cleveland, ..."

5. Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"booking Agencies Homer is activity central; sooner or later, ... Because of that demand, the town has three central booking agencies: one call to any of ..."

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