| 单词 | overbook |
| 释义 | overbook, v.|əʊvəˈbʊk|
[f. over- 27 + book v.]
trans. To make more bookings for (a theatre, hotel, aircraft, etc.) than there are places or seats available; to book an excessive number of (customers, passengers, etc.). Also intr. Hence overˈbooked ppl. a.; overˈbooking vbl. n.
1903Daily Chron. 10 Nov. 9/1 The booking clerks had by some oversight overbooked the theatre. 1964G. L. Cohen What's Wrong with Hospitals? v. 104 A Ministry report on waiting time [at hospital clinics] pointed to the same causes of delay: over-booking and arbitrary appointment intervals. 1967N. Buxton Travel '67 674 The traveller is told..that the flight has been over-booked and that he must wait for the next plane. Ibid. 675 Over-booking may sometimes happen even in the most competently run organization. 1971Guardian 28 July 7/8 An approach to end overbooking at some Spanish holiday hotels will begin in Madrid. 1972J. Potter Going West 77 All airlines overbooked by fourteen per cent as a matter of policy. 1973Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 6/7 If we did not overbook our flights the jumbos would be flying with a mass of empty seats. Ibid., We overbooked 31 passengers on a flight to Canada today. 1975Times 24 June 19/5 Over⁓booking—the practice of selling seats twice over, followed by almost every airline in the world. 1976Times 26 Jan. 19/4 The over-booked passenger, despite his protests, finds himself ‘bumped’ off the flight. 1978TV Times 28 Jan. 65 (Advt.) Want a really carefree holiday this year? Like to stay overnight where and when you like, and not bother about over-booked hotels? |
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