Booking vs. Reservation

Bookingverb

present participle of book

Bookingnoun

The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.

Bookingnoun

A reservation for a service, such as accommodation in an hotel.

Bookingnoun

The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.

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(sports) The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play.

Bookingnoun

(legal) The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording the identifying data of a suspect following arrest.

Bookingnoun

employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time;

Bookingnoun

the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group);

Bookingnoun

an act of reserving accommodation, a ticket, etc. in advance

Bookingnoun

an instance of a player being cautioned by the referee for foul play

Reservationnoun

The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.

Reservationnoun

The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.

Reservationnoun

The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.

Reservationnoun

Something that is withheld or kept back.

Reservationnoun

A limiting qualification; a doubt.

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(US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).

Reservationnoun

An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.

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(UK) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.

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(India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).

Reservationnoun

The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.

Reservationnoun

Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.

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A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.

Reservationnoun

The state of being reserved, or kept in store.

Reservationnoun

A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.

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The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.

Reservationnoun

an agreement to have some space, service or other acommodation, as at a hotel, a restaurant, or on a public transport system, held for one's future use; also, the record or receipt for such an agreement, or the contractual obligation to retain that accommodation; as, a hotel reservation; a reservation on a flight to Dallas; to book a reservation at the Ritz.

Reservationnoun

a district that is reserved for particular purpose

Reservationnoun

a statement that limits or restricts some claim;

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an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly

Reservationnoun

the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group);

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the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance

Reservationnoun

something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)

Reservationnoun

the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion

Reservationnoun

the action of reserving something

Reservationnoun

an arrangement whereby something, especially a seat or room, is reserved for a particular person

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(in church use) the practice of retaining a portion of the consecrated elements after Mass for communion of the sick or as a focus for devotion.

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an expression of doubt qualifying overall approval of a plan or statement

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an area of land set aside for occupation by North American Indians or Australian Aborigines

Reservationnoun

a right or interest retained in an estate being conveyed

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(in the Roman Catholic Church) the action of a superior of reserving to himself the power of absolution.

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a right reserved to the Pope of nomination to a vacant benefice.