Booking

Etymology
From the verb to book, from the noun book

Verb
booking



Noun

 * 1) The act or process of writing something down in (a) book(s), e.g. in accounting
 * 2) A reservation for a service, such as accommodation in an hotel.
 * 3) The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
 * 4)  The issuing of a caution which is, in theory at least, written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card.
 * 5)  The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording identifying data of a suspect following arrest.

Derived terms

 * booking clerk
 * booking office

Thesaurus
appointment, bespeaking, borscht circuit, briefing, cataloging, chronicling, circuit, date, employment, engagement, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, hiring, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, listing, logging, matriculation, playing engagement, posting, preengagement, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, reservation, retainment, run, stand, tabulation, taking on, tour, vaudeville circuit