2. Noun. An instance of selling or guaranteeing more seats than are available. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overbooking
1. overbook [v] - See also: overbook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbooking
Literary usage of Overbooking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Airline Hubs: Fair Competition Or Predatory Pricing, Hearing Before the edited by Mike Dewine (1999)
"Those components are overbooking and traffic management (seat ... overbooking is
employed due to the fact, on average, 11 percent of our booked passengers ..."
2. The Book of the Short Story by Alexander Jessup, Henry Seidel Canby (1903)
"They sat down by the low white parapet of the roof, overbooking the city and its
lights. “They are happy down there,” said Ameera. ..."
3. Greece: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1889)
"... were repeatedly repulsed, and Xerxes, overbooking the battle from a height,
saw the blood of his choicest troops flowing like water across the path. ..."
4. Successful Independent Consulting: Turn Your Career Experience Into a by Douglas Florzak (1999)
"... by taking on work that is over your head or by overbooking your time, so you
must be good at judging when to walk away from a client's project. ..."
5. Regulatory Reform in Argentina's Natural Gas Sector by International Energy Agency (1999)
"This cap is designed to discourage the distributors from deliberately overbooking
capacity to sell on the secondary market at ..."
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