单词 | overbooking |
释义 | overbookingn. The practice of making a booking for more of a commodity than is required or used; spec. the practice of making more bookings for an aircraft, hotel, theatre, etc., than there are seats, places, etc., available (sometimes intended to compensate for the expected rate of cancellation). ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > action of recording in writing recordationa1500 entrance1588 reportinga1626 calendaring1671 entry1712 recordal1822 committal1833 chalking1849 paperwork1861 chronicling1863 overbooking1902 rapportage1903 notarization1930 1902 Daily Chron. 24 Nov. 9/3 The witness..admitted that ‘overbookings’ occurred very frequently. 1964 G. L. Cohen What's Wrong with Hospitals? v. 104 A Ministry report on waiting time [at hospital clinics] pointed to the same causes of delay: over-booking and arbitrary appointment intervals. 1967 N. Buxton Travel '67 675 Over-booking may sometimes happen even in the most competently run organization. 1975 Times 24 June 19/5 Overbooking—the practice of selling seats twice over, followed by almost every airline in the world. 1998 Managem. Sci. 1579/2 We will assume there are no cancellations or no-shows and, consequently, overbooking is not needed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1902 |
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