booking

Noun
Synonyms: engagementreservation

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time“the play had bookings throughout the summer”Synonyms: 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”Synonyms: reservation
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Book \Book\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booked (b[oo^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Booking.]

1.To enter, write, or register in a book or list. [1913 Webster]

Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.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. [1913 Webster +PJC]

3.To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

Here I am booked for three days more in Paris.— Charles Reade.[1913 Webster]

4.to make an official record of a charge against (a suspect in a crime); -- performed by police. [PJC]

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