BOOKING


Meaning of BOOKING in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a booking fee ( also a service fee American English ) (= a charge you pay when buying a ticket )

Tickets for the concert are £45, plus a booking fee.

booking office

confirm a booking/reservation/appointment

I am writing to confirm a booking for a single room for the night of 6 June.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

advance

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

block

Dress is formal and block bookings are available.

form

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 .

hall

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 .

holiday

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 .

office

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 .

system

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.

telephone

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

accept

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?

cancel

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 .

complete

Dates Complete the booking form, and send with full payment due.

confirm

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.

make

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.

send

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.

take

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

advance planning/warning/booking etc

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.

block booking/voting

Dress is formal and block bookings are available.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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 DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.