booking

Meanings

Plural: bookings

Noun

• employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
  • "the play had bookings throughout the summer"
• the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)
  • "wondered who had made the booking"
• The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.
• A reservation for a service, such as travel or hotel accommodation.
• The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
• 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.
• The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording the identifying data of a suspect following arrest.

Verb

• engage for a performance
• arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
• record a charge in a police register
• register in a hotel booker
• present participle and gerund of book

Synonyms

book, engagement, hold, reservation, reserve

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