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Definition of Booking agent
1. Noun. Someone who engages a person or company for performances.
Generic synonyms: Agent
Specialized synonyms: Impresario, Promoter, Showman
Derivative terms: Book
Lexicographical Neighbors of Booking Agent
Literary usage of Booking agent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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 ..."
2. Wharf Management, Stevedoring and Storage by Roy Samuel MacElwee, Thomas Rothwell Taylor (1921)
"PLANNING THE STOWAGE Planning by the booking agent.—Planning the stowage begins
in the office of the steamship company. The billing clerk, in booking the ..."
3. The Business Man in the Amusement World: A Volume of Progress in the Field by Robert Grau (1910)
"The booking agent who created his own sway by finding a market for the services
of his clients up to the year 1900, was accustomed to receive five per cent ..."
4. Among English Inns: The Story of a Pilgrimage to Characteristic Spots of by Josephine Tozier (1904)
"Polly and I, who were highly indignant at what we supposed would be a long wait
in Mansfield, were busily making life miserable for the booking- agent, ..."
5. The Footlights, Fore and Aft by Channing Pollock (1911)
"First, there is your booking agent. His task, like the matter of engaging a company,
... Now-a-days your booking agent goes to the booking agent ..."