booking

booking
    n 1: employment for performers or performing groups that lasts
         for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings
         throughout the summer" [syn: {engagement}, {booking}]
    2: the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the
       services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made the
       booking" [syn: {booking}, {reservation}]
    

Book \Book\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Booked} (b[oo^]kt); p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Booking}.]
   1. To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
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            Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose
      of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; to reserve[2];
      also, to make an arrangement for a reservation; as, to be
      booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater; to
      book a reservation at a restaurant.
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   3. To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is
      booked for the valedictory. [Colloq.]
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            Here I am booked for three days more in Paris.
                                                  --Charles
                                                  Reade.
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   4. to make an official record of a charge against (a suspect
      in a crime); -- performed by police.
      [PJC]
    

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "booking":
      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