bookingnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbʊk.ɪŋ/us/ˈbʊk.ɪŋ/booking noun [ C ] (ARRANGEMENT)
B1 an arrangement you make to have a hotel room, tickets, etc. at a particular time in the future:
We made the booking three months ago.
Brad was away so we had to cancel the booking.
The show had already taken £4 million in advance bookings.
I filled in the booking form and sent it off.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making bookings & reservations
- book
- book in/book into somewhere
- book sb in/book sb into sth
- double-book
- overbook
- reservation
- reserve
- season
- vacancy
booking noun [ C ] (punishment)
a punishment for breaking the rules in a football game in which the referee writes the player's name in a book:
When a defender gets a booking, he has to be careful not to get another and be sent off.
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yellow card
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Football/soccer
- 18-yard box
- 2 3 5
- 4 3 2 1
- 4 4 2
- 4 5 1
- crossbar
- feint
- footballing
- futsal
- game 39
- game ball
- ghost goal
- give-and-go
- relegation
- Roy of the Rovers stuff
- scissor kick
- seal dribble
- shin guard
- shin pad
- stoppage
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Refereeing & judging in sport