Hypertext Webster Gateway: "booking"

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

booking
n 1: employment for performers or performing groups that lasts
for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings
throughout the summer" [syn: {engagement}]
2: the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the
services of (a person or group): "wondered who had made
the booking" [syn: {reservation}]

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