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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Booking" Quotes from Famous Books

... not sure of being accepted. Arriving in New York, he learned from an "Alta" representative that passage had already been reserved for him, but he still doubted his acceptance as one of the distinguished advertised company. His mind was presently relieved on this point. Waiting his turn at the booking-desk, he heard ...

— The Boys' Life of Mark Twain • Albert Bigelow Paine

... to pay thirty shillings for my ticket, instead of one pound. Although the price one pound is printed on the ticket, I couldn't get it until I had paid ten shillings extra. There was no time to get a proper explanation, so I want you to do so. Very likely it is sheer blackmail by that man in the booking-office, whom I never cared for. You had better see the station-master ...

— Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 152, February 21st, 1917 • Various

... thaumaturgy; explorers of voyages and travels in every region of the globe; fair readers, with dreamy eyes, devouring the last psychological novel; devotees of musical art perusing the lives or the scores of great composers; college and high-school students intent upon "booking up" on themes of study or composition or debate; and a host of other seekers after suggestion or information in ...

— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford

... the trapper, addressing the still motionless and entranced naturalist; "how now, friend; are you, who make your livelihood by booking the names and natur's of the beasts of the fields and the fowls of the air, frightened at a herd of scampering buffaloes? Though, perhaps, you are ready to dispute my right to call them by a word, that is in the mouth of every hunter ...

— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper

... it she did, for the signal was down when it came into view a hundred yards away from the station, and as she entered the booking office she saw the engine of Cecil's train rounding the last bend of the line, and there were the steps and the subway between her and ...

— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh

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