Dictionary Definition
booking
Noun
1 employment for performers or performing groups
that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings
throughout the summer" [syn: engagement]
2 the act of reserving (a place or passage) or
engaging the services of (a person or group); "wondered who had
made the booking" [syn: reservation]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes with: -ʊkɪŋ
Verb
booking- present participle of book
Noun
- The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
- A reservation for a service, such as accommodation in an hotel.
- The issuing of a caution which results in a yellow card or (after two bonkings) a red card.
Translations
The engagement of a performer for a particular
performance
A reservation for a service, such as
accommodation in an hotel
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 訂位, 订位 (dìng wèi)
- Croatian: buking
- Finnish: varaus
- French: réservation
- German: Buchung, Reservierung
- Greek: κράτηση (krátisi)
- Italian: prenotazione
- Japanese: 予約 (yoyaku)
- Russian: резервирование (r'ez'ervírovanije) , заказ (zakáz) , бронирование (bronírovanije)
- Spanish: reserva
The issuing of a caution which is, in theory at
least, written down in a book
- Russian: предупреждение (pr'edupr'ežd'énije) sport, выговор (výgovor)
- French: réserve
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Booking may refer to:
- Booking (professional wrestling), the laying out of the plot before a professional wrestling match
- An accounting system a.k.a. double-entry bookkeeping system
- The process of creation by a criminal justice system of an administrative record of those arrested.
- The process of matching musicians or other performing artists with performance opportunities, by a talent agency, a.k.a. booking agency
- A reservation in the tourism and hospitality industries
- The informal term for cautioning a player, in association football and several other sports, indicated by a yellow card
- The practice of forced socialization in Korean clubs such as Le Prive, in which waiters entice female patrons to other tables of men.
- A slang term for running or fleeing.
- Recording a loan into a loan servicing system
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
appointment, bespeaking, borscht circuit,
briefing, cataloging, chronicling, circuit, date, employment, engagement, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, hiring, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, listing, logging, matriculation, playing
engagement, posting,
preengagement,
record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, reservation, retainment, run, stand, tabulation, taking on,
tour, vaudeville
circuit