booking : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: booking	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for booking
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
booking n employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer" Synonym(s): engagement, booking the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made the booking" Synonym(s): booking, reservation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Book \Book\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Booked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Booking}.] 1. To enter, write, or register in a book or list. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. --Shak. 2. To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater. 3. 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. --Charles Reade.