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–noun
1.a contract, engagement, or scheduled performance of a professional entertainer.
2.reservation (def. 5).
3.the act of a person who books.

[Origin: 1635–45; book + -ing1]
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book    Audio Help   (bŏŏk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A set of written, printed, or blank pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.
    1. A printed or written literary work.
    2. A main division of a larger printed or written work: a book of the Old Testament.
    3. A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.
    4. books Financial or business records considered as a group: checked the expenditures on the books.
    5. A libretto.
    6. The script of a play.
    7. The Bible.
    8. The Koran.
    9. A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
    10. Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
    11. The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task: We used every trick in the book to finish the project on schedule.
    12. Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
    1. A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.
    2. books Financial or business records considered as a group: checked the expenditures on the books.
    3. A libretto.
    4. The script of a play.
    5. The Bible.
    6. The Koran.
    7. A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
    8. Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
    9. The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task: We used every trick in the book to finish the project on schedule.
    10. Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
    1. A libretto.
    2. The script of a play.
    3. The Bible.
    4. The Koran.
    5. A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
    6. Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
    7. The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task: We used every trick in the book to finish the project on schedule.
    8. Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
  2. Book
    1. The Bible.
    2. The Koran.
    3. A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
    4. Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
    5. The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task: We used every trick in the book to finish the project on schedule.
    6. Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
    1. A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
    2. Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
    3. The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task: We used every trick in the book to finish the project on schedule.
    4. Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?
  3. A packet of like or similar items bound together: a book of matches.
  4. A record of bets placed on a race.
  5. Games The number of card tricks needed before any tricks can have scoring value, as the first six tricks taken by the declaring side in bridge.

v.   booked, book·ing, books

v.   tr.
  1. To list or register in or as if in a book.
    1. To record charges against (a person) on a police blotter.
    2. Sports To record the flagrant fouls of (a player) for possible disciplinary action, as in soccer.
  2. To arrange for (tickets or lodgings, for example) in advance; reserve.
  3. To hire or engage: The manager booked a magic show for Saturday night.
  4. To allocate time for.

v.   intr.
To make a reservation: Book early if you want good seats.

adj.  
  1. Of or relating to knowledge learned from books rather than actual experience: has book smarts but not street smarts.
  2. Appearing in a company's financial records: book profits.


[Middle English bok, from Old English bōc; see bhāgo- in Indo-European roots.]

book'er n.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to cause something to be set aside in advance, as for one's use or possession: will book a hotel room; made sure their selections were bespoken; engaged a box for the opera season; reserving a table at a restaurant.

Word History: From an etymological perspective, book and beech are branches of the same tree. The Germanic root of both words is *bōk-, ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning "beech tree." The Old English form of book is bōc, from Germanic *bōk-ō, "written document, book." The Old English form of beech is bēce, from Germanic *bōk-jōn, "beech tree," because the early Germanic peoples used strips of beech wood to write on. A similar semantic development occurred in Latin. The Latin word for book is liber, whence library. Liber, however, originally meant "bark"—that is, the smooth inner bark of a tree, which the early Romans likewise used to write on.

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book·ing    Audio Help   (bŏŏk'ĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. An engagement, as for a performance by an entertainer.
  2. A reservation, as for accommodations at a hotel.

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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" 

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ˈbooking noun
a reservation
Arabic: حَجْز
Chinese (Simplified): 预约
Chinese (Traditional): 預約
Czech: rezervace, objednávka
Danish: reservation
Dutch: reservering
Estonian: ettetellimine
Finnish: varaus
French: réservation
German: die Buchung
Greek: κράτηση
Hungarian: helyfoglalás
Icelandic: pöntun, bókun, frátekið
Indonesian: pemesanan
Italian: prenotazione
Japanese: 予約
Korean: 예약
Latvian: iepriekšpasūtīšana; rezervēšana
Lithuanian: išankstinis užsakymas
Norwegian: bestilling
Polish: rezerwacja
Portuguese (Brazil): reserva
Portuguese (Portugal): reserva
Romanian: rezervare
Russian: заказ
Slovak: rezervácia
Slovenian: rezervacija
Spanish: registro, reserva
Swedish: bokning, reservation
Turkish: yer ayırtma
See also: book, book in, booked up, by the book, bookable, bookbinding, bookcase, booking-office, booklet, bookmaker, bookmark, bookseller, bookshelf, bookshop, bookworm, "booking" in any language

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