| 单词 | booking office |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbooking office booking office n. an office where tickets for travel may be booked, or where goods may be booked for transit; the place where tickets are sold at a railway station, theatre, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > booking-office coach-office1794 booking office1814 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > office where tickets are sold booking office1814 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > other parts of theatre > [noun] > box office box office1741 paybox1814 booking office1945 1814 Morning Post 13 June (advt.) Clerk in a Booking-office. 1881 R. G. White Eng. Without & Within iii. 60 At the ‘booking-office’ no booking is done..But as there were booking offices for the stagecoaches which used to run between all the towns..of England, the term had become fixed in the minds, and upon the lips of this nation of travellers. 1945 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. 453 Punch's theatre article used to be headed ‘Our Booking Office’. Today everybody speaks and writes of the box-office of a theatre. Only a railway ticket-office is a booking-office. 1991 C. Fremlin Dangerous Thoughts xix. 123 No one in the booking office. < as lemmas |
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