booking

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time

   the play had bookings throughout the summer

2. 2
   noun

   the act of reserving a place or passage, or engaging the services of a person or group

   I wondered who had made the booking.

3. 3
   noun

   A reservation for a service, such as travel or hotel accommodation.

   Advance bookings were initially suspended. They are now available again, but with less than one-week's availability at a time.

4. 4
   verb

   present participle and gerund of book

5. 5
   noun

   The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.

6. 6
   noun

   The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.

7. 7
   noun

   The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play.

8. 8
   noun

   The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording the identifying data of a suspect following arrest.