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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 station, not through the booking office, but in a freebooting sort of way by the sloping end of the platform. This in ...

— The Railway Children • E. Nesbit

... interest. He merely grunted and jerked down his flag. The drive was uneventful. Tommy's taxi came to rest at the departure platform just after Whittington's. Tommy was behind him at the booking-office. He took a first-class single ticket to Bournemouth, Tommy did the same. As he emerged, Boris remarked, glancing up at the clock: "You are early. You have nearly half ...

— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie

... station, and the momentous twenty-eight minutes began to run their course. Having donned a bulky muffler and turned up the collar of my pea-jacket, I crossed over immediately to the up-platform, walked boldly to the booking-office, and at once sighted—von Brning—yes, von Brning in mufti; but there was no mistaking his tall athletic figure, pleasant features, and neat brown beard. He was just leaving the window, gathering up a ticket and some coins. I joined a queue of three ...

— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers

... he stood for a time in the booking-hall, glanced at his watch, and then took up the handbag which he carried and walked out into the station yard. ...

— The Golden Scorpion • Sax Rohmer

... will be 15 feet in diameter and its internal depth 9 feet. From the level of the rails of the Mersey Railway to the bottom of this water-tank the vertical distance is 198 feet. At the western side of the subterranean railway there is, above the arrival platform, a "lower booking-hall," or, more properly, a large waiting room, 32 feet square and 29 feet high, the access to which on this side is by a broad flight of steps rising 12 feet, and to and from which all passengers on the departure platform have communication by a lattice bridge 16 feet above the line of ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 • Various

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