Definition of double-book in US English:
double-book
verbˌdəbəlˈbʊkˌdəbəlˈbo͝ok
[with object]usually be double-bookedReserve (something, especially a seat or a hotel room) for two different customers or parties at the same time.
the hotel was double-booked
Example sentencesExamples
- Those idiots have double-booked a press conference and a meeting and it's utter pandemonium.
- The program's intuitive interface and dual calendaring system make it impossible to double-book rooms.
- Until, that is, someone called to say their rooms had been inadvertently double-booked.
- Most were there to celebrate Co-operative Day, a festival organised by workers' credit unions, but the park seemed to have been double-booked by the Make Poverty History campaign, who are handing out makeshift white wristbands.
- I was informed on arrival that my host and her boyfriend in a fine bit of mutual consultation had double-booked the single bed in the spare room (which had belonged to my host as a child).
- When the rooms were double-booked, the reps would lose theirs, and everyone ended the season completely exhausted.
- Worries about money, the car and possibly no shows in Brighton in the summer before London as the chorus dancers have been double-booked into Seville.