Booking

n. reserving in advance; recording, inscription

v. record, inscribe; indicate; order in advance; reserve

Booking may refer to:Booking (professional wrestling), the laying out of the plot before a professional wrestling matchAn accounting system a.k.a. double-entry bookkeeping systemThe process of creation by a criminal justice system of an administrative record of those arrested.The process of matching musicians or other performing artists with performance opportunities, by a talent agency, a.k.a. booking agencyA reservation in the tourism and hospitality industriesThe informal term for cautioning a player, in association football and several other sports, indicated by a yellow cardThe practice of forced socialization in Korean clubs such as Le Prive, in which waiters entice female patrons to other tables of men.A slang term for running or fleeing.
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Noun
1. employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer"
(synonym) engagement
(hypernym) employment, work
(hyponym) gig
(derivation) book
2. the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made the booking"
(synonym) reservation
(hypernym) employment, engagement
(derivation) book

Noun
1. a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together); "I am reading a good book on economics"
(hypernym) publication
(hyponym) authority
(part-meronym) signature
2. physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop"
(synonym) volume
(hypernym) product, production
(hyponym) album
(part-meronym) binding, book binding, cover, back
3. a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books"
(synonym) ledger, leger, account book, book of account
(hypernym) record
(hyponym) cost ledger
(member-meronym) accounting, accounting system, method of accounting
4. a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge; "he bought a book of stamps"
(hypernym) product, production
5. a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone; "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'"; "his name is in all the recordbooks"
(synonym) record, record book
(hypernym) fact
(hyponym) logbook
6. a major division of a long written composition; "the book of Isaiah"
(hypernym) section, subdivision
(hyponym) Genesis, Book of Genesis
(part-holonym) text, textual matter
7. a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
(synonym) script, playscript
(hypernym) dramatic composition, dramatic work
(hyponym) promptbook, prompt copy
8. a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; "they run things by the book around here"
(synonym) rule book
(hypernym) collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
(part-meronym) rule, prescript
Verb
1. record a charge in a police register; "The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man"
(hypernym) record, enter, put down
(hyponym) ticket, fine
2. arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's"
(synonym) reserve, hold
(hypernym) request, bespeak, call for, quest
(hyponym) keep open, hold open, keep, save
(entail) procure, secure
(verb-group) reserve
(derivation) booking, reservation
3. engage for a performance; "Her agent had booked her for several concerts in Tokyo"
(hypernym) schedule
(derivation) booker, booking agent
4. register in a hotel booker
(hypernym) register
(derivation) booking, reservation

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Book
  

Arrangements with steamship companies for the acceptance and carriage of freight. (TNDOT1)