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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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"Booking" Quotes from Famous Books

... this instant. That quite accounts for his views. He wants to push his own wines. Of course, drunkenness is working for his interests. I understand it all now. He has undone the work of years by that speech for the sake of booking a few orders. It is contemptible. I trust, Hester, he is not a particular friend of yours, for I shall feel it my duty to speak very strongly to him ...

— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley

... station he met quite a crowd, all going in the same direction as himself; neither the darkness nor the cold could affect their energy or spirits, and Bob's spirits rose too, as he followed the stream of travellers into the little gas-lit booking office for ...

— Dick and Brownie • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... inquiry for a Bradshaw with a dull stare and a shake of the head. No such thing had ever been asked for at Bursley Station before, and the man's imagination could not go beyond the soiled time-tables loosely pinned and pasted up on the walls of the booking-office. Hilda suggested that the ticket-clerk should be interrogated, but the aperture of communication with him was shut. She saw Edwin Clayhanger brace himself and rap on the wood; and instead of deploring his diffidence she liked it and found it full of charm. The partition clicked aside, ...

— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett

... after the cab. I had a heavy oak stick in my hand, and I tell you that I saw red from the first; but as I ran I got cunning, too, and hung back a little to see them without being seen. They pulled up soon at the railway station. There was a good crowd round the booking-office, so I got quite close to them without being seen. They took tickets for New Brighton. So did I, but I got in three carriages behind them. When we reached it they walked along the Parade, and I was never more than a hundred ...

— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... her father's many kindnesses to her each year was the gift of a season ticket to town; but to-day some queer instinct made her buy a ticket at the booking-office instead. ...

— Studies in love and in terror • Marie Belloc Lowndes

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