bookingbook‧ing /ˈbʊkɪŋ/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
bookings on cruise ships I made a booking for two double rooms. I’m calling to confirm my booking (=say definitely that I want to travel etc). If you cancel your booking, there will be a small charge. Places on the course are limited and advance booking is essential.block booking (=a booking for a large number of dates, seats, rooms etc)2an arrangement made by a performer to perform at a particular time in the future3 British English the act of writing a football player’s name in a book as a punishment for breaking the rulesCOLLOCATIONSverbsmake a booking· Your travel agent will make your booking for you.confirm a booking· Please confirm your booking 48 hours before your flight.cancel a booking· If you wish to cancel your booking, you must do it in writing.accept a booking· Bookings can only be accepted on receipt of a deposit.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + bookingadvance booking· The cinema charges 50p a ticket for advance booking.early booking· Early booking is recommended because places are limited.late booking· There are cash penalties for late booking.a holiday booking· I had an email confirming our holiday booking.a group booking/block booking (=a booking for a large number of seats, rooms etc)· There's a 20% discount for group bookings.booking + NOUNa booking form· You can complete the booking form online.a booking fee· Ticket agencies may charge a booking fee.booking conditions· In the event of a cancellation, a refund will be offered according to the terms of our booking conditions.a booking hall/office British English (=a place for buying tickets, especially in a station)· There were long queues in the booking hall.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Advance bookings for the show currently total more than £100,000.
- Cheaper prices are available on early bookings.
- I'd like to cancel my booking, please.
- You can make a provisional booking over the phone.
- But the number of emigrants forced the introduction of booking systems, although a booked passage did not guarantee comfort.
- Early booking is recommended as numbers are limited on many of the tours.
- If the guest took up the booking, the deposit was part payment of the full price.
- If you have to cancel a booking, please let us know as soon as possible.
- Nigel Cope Monthly summer holiday bookings compared with bookings for same month last year.
- Only one total bill will be prepared for any party booking.
- Please send the attached booking form to the above address with a stamped, addressed envelope.
- The booking sheets showed clearly the public felt there was no difference.
Longman Language Activatorto arrange to use a plane, train, hotel room, restaurant etc
· I'd like to reserve a seat on the next plane to Atlanta.· Marge and I are thinking of booking a holiday in Malaysia this year.· You'd better book now while they still have a vacancy.be booked up/be fully booked (=all the tickets, seats etc have been booked) · The lady at the bed and breakfast says she's booked up till February.booked solid (=all the tickets for a play, show etc have been completely booked for a long period of time and it is impossible to get any) · The show was booked solid for months to come.
an arrangement you make with a hotel, airline, restaurant etc so that they will keep a room or seat for you to use at a later time or date: · There might be trouble getting hotel reservations the week of the festival.have a reservation: · "I'd like a table for two please." "Do you have a reservation, madam?"make a reservation: · She packed her bags, then called the airport and made a reservation on the last flight out of Los Angeles.cancel a reservation: · I have to work late tonight, so I cancelled our dinner reservations.
especially British an arrangement you make with a hotel, theatre, etc so that they will keep a room or seat for you to use at a later time or date: · I'd like to cancel my booking, please.· Advance bookings for the show currently total more than £100,000.make a booking: · You can make a provisional booking over the phone.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs I am writing to confirm a booking for a single room for the night of 6 June.
· Your travel agent will make your booking for you.
· Please confirm your booking 48 hours before your flight.
· If you wish to cancel your booking, you must do it in writing.
· Bookings can only be accepted on receipt of a deposit.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + booking· The cinema charges 50p a ticket for advance booking.
· Early booking is recommended because places are limited.
· There are cash penalties for late booking.
· I had an email confirming our holiday booking.
(=a booking for a large number of seats, rooms etc)· There's a 20% discount for group bookings.
booking + NOUN· You can complete the booking form online.
· Ticket agencies may charge a booking fee.
· In the event of a cancellation, a refund will be offered according to the terms of our booking conditions.
British English (=a place for buying tickets, especially in a station)· There were long queues in the booking hall.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES I am writing to confirm a booking for a single room for the night of 6 June. (also a service fee American English) (=a charge you pay when buying a ticket)· Tickets for the concert are £45, plus a booking fee.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Perhaps the most widely used online service is travel planning, both to research a destination and to do advance bookings.· It will also repay advance bookings.· Fifty guaranteed seats once a week will give the advance bookings a most healthy look.
NOUN· Dress is formal and block bookings are available.
· Booking By post Complete booking form on facing page for all tickets by post.· No persons other than those stated on the booking form may occupy the property.· For further information and a booking form please contact Alex Ankrah at the Arts Council.· Use your own container for this if you wish - details of suitable ones will be sent with your booking form.· Dates Complete the booking form, and send with full payment due.· Please indicate your request on the booking form.· Your Reservation On receipt of your completed booking form and deposit we will reserve your holiday.· There is also a limit of £7,500 per booking form.
· Totally mystified by his experience, he crept back to the booking hall and tried to sleep.· But on the second landing I found small groups of them with machine-guns lazily overlooking the booking hall.· Melissa took her by the arm and piloted her through the booking hall.· Below the window a crocodile of children in striped caps marched across the booking hall.· I saw an advertisement for it in the booking hall.
· Spring is peak time for holiday bookings, but they have dropped by up to 30 % in some areas.· Nigel Cope Monthly summer holiday bookings compared with bookings for same month last year.· Your insurance premium is payable when you make your holiday booking.
· The parcel office and booking office will be available for photography aided by staff in period dress.· The driver had not seen anyone on the platform and neither had the booking office clerk.· Contact your local London Underground booking office for details.· The original station in Colombo had twin towers which housed the first and second-class booking offices at their bases.· The first objective is the provision of a new souvenir shop, refreshment room and booking office.· If printed in time tickets may be available a few days ahead of the programme from Henley and Twyford booking offices.· Under this method, candidates buy a voting slip from a booking office.
· It can continue to offer a central booking system as long as governors wish to use it.· But the number of emigrants forced the introduction of booking systems, although a booked passage did not guarantee comfort.· So before Forte Travelodge installed a new booking system it set up a trial in a mock-up of its operations centre.· As a result we operate a booking system which aims to give as many people as possible an opportunity to play.
· Visa facilities are available for telephone bookings.· Riverside Theatre Personal and telephone bookings can be made in the Riverside Theatre on performance evenings only between 5.30 p.m. -8 p.m.· Paying cash had the added benefit of leaving no record of our visit except a pencilled telephone booking under two untraceable names.
VERB· Visa and Access are accepted for credit card bookings.· We accept cruising yacht bookings on condition that the levels of experience described on your booking form are correct.· As long as you tell us, and don't travel against medical advice, we can accept your booking.· Finally, who is delegated to accept and correlate bookings and who is available to supervise evening and possibly weekend activities?
· If you have to cancel a booking, please let us know as soon as possible.· It was after you decided that we'd have to cancel our bookings for Venice next March because of the exchange rate.· On two consecutive years the venue, one used for many conferences, tried to cancel our booking.
· Dates Complete the booking form, and send with full payment due.
· To confirm the booking, you will be required to sign the completed Booking Form and pay the appropriate deposit.· Cancellation cover applies as soon as you have confirmed your booking with us.· If you wish to telephone us, we will endeavour to confirm your booking immediately.· Arthur went to confirm the booking, and gather furniture for us.· They will confirm the booking by sending you an invoice and detailed joining instructions.· The hotel's response in writing confirming the booking is an acceptance of the guest's offer to contract.
· Once you have made your booking and paid a deposit, then the cost of your holiday can not be changed.· Please enquire when making your booking.· Your insurance premium is payable when you make your holiday booking.· Please telephone the hotel of your choice to make your booking.· We hope these improved facilities will make booking tickets easier.· Graham's problems were made worse by the booking of central defender Steve Bould, who now faces suspension.
· Please do not send bookings for the free places direct to the two colleges.· Use your own container for this if you wish - details of suitable ones will be sent with your booking form.· A list of local accommodation can be sent with your booking form.· When costs and details are finalised, they will be sent out with booking confirmation.· If you haven't already sent off your booking form do so today, and see the next Journal for more details.· Please send the attached booking form to the above address with a stamped, addressed envelope.
· Our staff will be pleased to answer your enquiries and take your booking.· Dad says he's going to start taking bookings.· A new service for golfers on the Algarve coast aims to take the hassle out of booking tee times on holiday courses.· If the guest took up the booking, the deposit was part payment of the full price.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1an arrangement to travel by train, use a hotel room etc at a particular time in the future: - For course details details and advance booking forms contact:.
- However, Redmond and Manschreck acknowledged that they had not billed for or received any money for the advance planning.
- If we could list those we'd have advance warning of shortage problems on the assembly lines two months before they occur.
- It will also repay advance bookings.
- Perhaps the most widely used online service is travel planning, both to research a destination and to do advance bookings.
- Significant moments in history do not happen without some kind of advance warning.
- The most obvious features are the tall watchtowers scattered across the Silk Road to provide advance warning of Xiongnu attack.
- Dress is formal and block bookings are available.
bookings on cruise ships I made a booking for two double rooms. I’m calling to confirm my booking (=say definitely that I want to travel etc). If you cancel your booking, there will be a small charge. Places on the course are limited and advance booking is essential.block booking (=a booking for a large number of dates, seats, rooms etc)2an arrangement made by a performer to perform at a particular time in the future3 British English the act of writing a football player’s name in a book as a punishment for breaking the rulesCOLLOCATIONSverbsmake a booking· Your travel agent will make your booking for you.confirm a booking· Please confirm your booking 48 hours before your flight.cancel a booking· If you wish to cancel your booking, you must do it in writing.accept a booking· Bookings can only be accepted on receipt of a deposit.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + bookingadvance booking· The cinema charges 50p a ticket for advance booking.early booking· Early booking is recommended because places are limited.late booking· There are cash penalties for late booking.a holiday booking· I had an email confirming our holiday booking.a group booking/block booking (=a booking for a large number of seats, rooms etc)· There's a 20% discount for group bookings.booking + NOUNa booking form· You can complete the booking form online.a booking fee· Ticket agencies may charge a booking fee.booking conditions· In the event of a cancellation, a refund will be offered according to the terms of our booking conditions.a booking hall/office British English (=a place for buying tickets, especially in a station)· There were long queues in the booking hall.