noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a booking fee ( also a service fee American English ) (= a charge you pay when buying a ticket )
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Tickets for the concert are £45, plus a booking fee.
booking office
confirm a booking/reservation/appointment
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I am writing to confirm a booking for a single room for the night of 6 June.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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advance
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Perhaps the most widely used online service is travel planning, both to research a destination and to do advance bookings .
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It will also repay advance bookings .
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Fifty guaranteed seats once a week will give the advance bookings a most healthy look.
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block
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Dress is formal and block bookings are available.
form
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Booking By post Complete booking form on facing page for all tickets by post.
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No persons other than those stated on the booking form may occupy the property.
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For further information and a booking form please contact Alex Ankrah at the Arts Council.
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Use your own container for this if you wish - details of suitable ones will be sent with your booking form .
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Dates Complete the booking form , and send with full payment due.
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Please indicate your request on the booking form .
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Your Reservation On receipt of your completed booking form and deposit we will reserve your holiday.
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There is also a limit of £7,500 per booking form .
hall
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Totally mystified by his experience, he crept back to the booking hall and tried to sleep.
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But on the second landing I found small groups of them with machine-guns lazily overlooking the booking hall .
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Melissa took her by the arm and piloted her through the booking hall .
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Below the window a crocodile of children in striped caps marched across the booking hall .
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I saw an advertisement for it in the booking hall .
holiday
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Spring is peak time for holiday bookings , but they have dropped by up to 30 % in some areas.
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Nigel Cope Monthly summer holiday bookings compared with bookings for same month last year.
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Your insurance premium is payable when you make your holiday booking .
office
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The parcel office and booking office will be available for photography aided by staff in period dress.
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The driver had not seen anyone on the platform and neither had the booking office clerk.
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Contact your local London Underground booking office for details.
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The original station in Colombo had twin towers which housed the first and second-class booking offices at their bases.
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The first objective is the provision of a new souvenir shop, refreshment room and booking office .
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If printed in time tickets may be available a few days ahead of the programme from Henley and Twyford booking offices .
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Under this method, candidates buy a voting slip from a booking office .
system
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It can continue to offer a central booking system as long as governors wish to use it.
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But the number of emigrants forced the introduction of booking systems , although a booked passage did not guarantee comfort.
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So before Forte Travelodge installed a new booking system it set up a trial in a mock-up of its operations centre.
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As a result we operate a booking system which aims to give as many people as possible an opportunity to play.
telephone
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Visa facilities are available for telephone bookings .
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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.
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Paying cash had the added benefit of leaving no record of our visit except a pencilled telephone booking under two untraceable names.
■ VERB
accept
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Visa and Access are accepted for credit card bookings .
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We accept cruising yacht bookings on condition that the levels of experience described on your booking form are correct.
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As long as you tell us, and don't travel against medical advice, we can accept your booking .
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Finally, who is delegated to accept and correlate bookings and who is available to supervise evening and possibly weekend activities?
cancel
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If you have to cancel a booking , please let us know as soon as possible.
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It was after you decided that we'd have to cancel our bookings for Venice next March because of the exchange rate.
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On two consecutive years the venue, one used for many conferences, tried to cancel our booking .
complete
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Dates Complete the booking form, and send with full payment due.
confirm
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To confirm the booking , you will be required to sign the completed Booking Form and pay the appropriate deposit.
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Cancellation cover applies as soon as you have confirmed your booking with us.
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If you wish to telephone us, we will endeavour to confirm your booking immediately.
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Arthur went to confirm the booking , and gather furniture for us.
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They will confirm the booking by sending you an invoice and detailed joining instructions.
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The hotel's response in writing confirming the booking is an acceptance of the guest's offer to contract.
make
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Once you have made your booking and paid a deposit, then the cost of your holiday can not be changed.
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Please enquire when making your booking .
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Your insurance premium is payable when you make your holiday booking .
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Please telephone the hotel of your choice to make your booking .
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We hope these improved facilities will make booking tickets easier.
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Graham's problems were made worse by the booking of central defender Steve Bould, who now faces suspension.
send
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Please do not send bookings for the free places direct to the two colleges.
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Use your own container for this if you wish - details of suitable ones will be sent with your booking form.
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A list of local accommodation can be sent with your booking form.
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When costs and details are finalised, they will be sent out with booking confirmation.
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If you haven't already sent off your booking form do so today, and see the next Journal for more details.
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Please send the attached booking form to the above address with a stamped, addressed envelope.
take
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Our staff will be pleased to answer your enquiries and take your booking .
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Dad says he's going to start taking bookings .
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A new service for golfers on the Algarve coast aims to take the hassle out of booking tee times on holiday courses.
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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
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For course details details and advance booking forms contact:.
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However, Redmond and Manschreck acknowledged that they had not billed for or received any money for the advance planning.
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If we could list those we'd have advance warning of shortage problems on the assembly lines two months before they occur.
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It will also repay advance bookings.
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Perhaps the most widely used online service is travel planning, both to research a destination and to do advance bookings.
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Significant moments in history do not happen without some kind of advance warning.
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The most obvious features are the tall watchtowers scattered across the Silk Road to provide advance warning of Xiongnu attack.
block booking/voting
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Dress is formal and block bookings are available.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Advance bookings for the show currently total more than £100,000.
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Cheaper prices are available on early bookings.
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I'd like to cancel my booking , please.
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You can make a provisional booking over the phone.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the number of emigrants forced the introduction of booking systems, although a booked passage did not guarantee comfort.
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Early booking is recommended as numbers are limited on many of the tours.
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If the guest took up the booking , the deposit was part payment of the full price.
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If you have to cancel a booking , please let us know as soon as possible.
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Nigel Cope Monthly summer holiday bookings compared with bookings for same month last year.
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Only one total bill will be prepared for any party booking .
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Please send the attached booking form to the above address with a stamped, addressed envelope.
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The booking sheets showed clearly the public felt there was no difference.