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/bˈʊkɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Book v. t. (past & past part. booked; pres. part. booking)

To enter, write, or register in a book or list. "Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds."

To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; to reserve (2); also, to make an arrangement for a reservation; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater; to book a reservation at a restaurant.

To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. (Colloq.) "Here I am booked for three days more in Paris."

To make an official record of a charge against (a suspect in a crime); performed by police.

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Etymology of 'Booking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Booking" Quotes from Famous Books

... At the booking-office he was told that the special train for the Sutlej had just gone. Another train for Tilbury was leaving in ...

— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan

... are given to a man in waiting to be wagered on the various events. The finishes are seldom very close, the Filipino ponies scampering around the turf like rats. A native band, however, adds to the excitement which the clamor at the booking office and the animated chatter of duenas, caballeros, jockeys, and ...

— The Great White Tribe in Filipinia • Paul T. Gilbert

... one we went into the booking-clerk's office again, where we were scaled and our weights entered in a book. Then we had an interview with the doctor, whose duty it was to examine us to see whether we were suffering from any complaint. I was ...

— Prisoner for Blasphemy • G. W. [George William] Foote

... of nothing specially, for the three-forty up-train had gone through the station, and it was a good hour yet before the five-ten down express was due, he had been lazily leaning in a half- dreamy and almost dozing state against the side of the booking-office. ...

— Teddy - The Story of a Little Pickle • J. C. Hutcheson

... them, labelled "Special Excursion—Reserved", she was as anxious to get into the train as she had been to remain on the omnibus. There were, of course, many little excitements. Winnie nearly left the parcel containing her bathing-dress on the seat near the booking office, only remembering it just in time; Maggie Woodhall's hat blew away over the line, and had to be recovered by the guard; and one of the luncheon baskets fell off the truck as the porter was wheeling it along the platform, much to Miss Lincoln's ...

— The Nicest Girl in the School - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil

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