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bookfair |
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bookholder |
bookie |
booking
| booking agent
| booking clerk
| booking office
| bookish
| bookishness
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun booking has 2 senses
- booking(n = noun.act) engagement - employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer" has particulars: gig
- booking(n = noun.act) reservation - the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made the booking" is a kind of employment, engagement
is a kind of employment, work
Derived form verb book1
Derived forms verb book2, verb book4
OXFORD DICTIONARY
booking, n. the act or an instance of booking or reserving a seat, a room in a hotel, etc.; a reservation (see BOOK v. 1).
Idiom
booking-clerk an official selling tickets at a railway station. booking-hall (or -office) Brit. a room or area at a railway station in which tickets are sold.
THESAURUS
booking
appointment, bespeaking, borscht circuit, briefing, cataloging, chronicling, circuit, date, employment, engagement, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, hiring, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, listing, logging, matriculation, playing engagement, posting, preengagement, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, reservation, retainment, run, stand, tabulation, taking on, tour, vaudeville circuitROGET THESAURUS
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Record
N record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time.
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