I
n.
1) a booking ~ ( BE ; AE has ticket agent )
2) a desk ( AE ), reception ( BE ), room ( AE ) ~ (in a hotel)
3) a bank ( BE ); city ( AE ), town; cipher, code; court; filing; mail, postal ~; sales~ ( AE ; BE has shop assistant ); shipping; stockroom ~
II
v. ( D ; intr. ) (legal) to ~ for (the budding lawyer was ~ing for a prominent judge)