BOOKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does booking mean? 

• BOOKING (noun)
  The noun BOOKING has 2 senses:

1. employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time

2. the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)

  Familiarity information: BOOKING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

booking; engagement

Context example:

the play had bookings throughout the summer

Hypernyms ("booking" is a kind of...):

employment; work (the occupation for which you are paid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "booking"):

gig (a booking for musicians)

Derivation:

book (engage for a performance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

booking; reservation

Context example:

wondered who had made the booking

Hypernyms ("booking" is a kind of...):

employment; engagement (the act of giving someone a job)

Derivation:

book (arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance)

book (register in a hotel booker)

 Context examples 

If you can’t travel, you might enjoy booking a luxurious treatment at the spa after work.

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