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Meaning of "overbooking" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERBOOKING

overbooking  [ˌəʊvəˈbʊkɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERBOOKING

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overbooking is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OVERBOOKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Overselling

Overselling or overbooking is sale of a volatile good or service in excess of actual capacity. Overselling is a common practice in the travel and lodging industry. In telecommunications, sometimes the term oversubscription is preferred. The practice occurs as an intentional business strategy where sellers expect that some buyers will not consume all of the resources they are entitled to, or that some buyers will cancel, the practice of overselling ensures that 100% of available supply will be used resulting in the maximum return on investment.

Definition of overbooking in the English dictionary

The definition of overbooking in the dictionary is the act of selling more of something than is available.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERBOOKING


anti-smoking
ˈæntɪˈsməʊkɪŋ
antismoking
ˌæntɪˈsməʊkɪŋ
backward-looking
ˈbækwədˌlʊkɪŋ
booking
ˈbʊkɪŋ
broking
ˈbrəʊkɪŋ
choking
ˈtʃəʊkɪŋ
cooking
ˈkʊkɪŋ
e-booking
ˈiːˌbʊkɪŋ
forward-looking
ˌfɔːwədˈlʊkɪŋ
inward-looking
ˈɪnwədˌlʊkɪŋ
joking
ˈdʒəʊkɪŋ
nonsmoking
ˈnɒnˈsməʊkɪŋ
odd-looking
ˈɒdlʊkɪŋ
onlooking
ˈɒnlʊkɪŋ
provoking
prəˈvəʊkɪŋ
smoking
ˈsməʊkɪŋ
soaking
ˈsəʊkɪŋ
thought-provoking
ˈθɔːtprəvəʊkɪŋ
Woking
ˈwəʊkɪŋ
young-looking
ˈjʌŋˌlʊkɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERBOOKING

overblew
overblouse
overblow
overblown
overboard
overboil
overbold
overboldly
overbook
overbooked
overboot
overbore
overborne
overborrow
overbought
overbound
overbrake
overbreathing
overbred
overbreed

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERBOOKING

banking
beard-stroking
block booking
breaking
capacity booking
distinguished-looking
good-looking
half-joking
home cooking
mallemaroking
nice-looking
noncoking
outward-looking
passive smoking
pawnbroking
queer-looking
shabby-looking
shifty-looking
stockbroking
yoking

Synonyms and antonyms of overbooking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overbooking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERBOOKING

Find out the translation of overbooking to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of overbooking from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overbooking» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

超售
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

overbooking
570 millions of speakers

English

overbooking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ओवरबुकिंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فرط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

превышения ресурсов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

overbooking
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

overbooking
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

surréservation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Overbooking
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Überbuchung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オーバーブッキング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

초과 예약
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overbooking
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overbooking
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overbooking
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Overbooking
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Çifte rezervasyon
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

overbooking
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overbooking
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

перевищення ресурсів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

suprarezervare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

overbooking
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overboeking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

överbokning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

booking
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overbooking

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERBOOKING»

The term «overbooking» is regularly used and occupies the 65.013 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERBOOKING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overbooking

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERBOOKING»

Discover the use of overbooking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overbooking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management
This is the essence of planned overbooking. A firm that chooses a strategy of planned overbooking is immediately faced with several important problems. One is confronting the legal and regulatory implications of failing to honor the ...
Kalyan T. Talluri, Garrett J. van Ryzin, 2006
2
Radio Access Network Dimensioning for 3G UMTS
The presented results show that the proposed analytical dimensioning approach can be applied well for dimensioning the individual links for elastic traffic in the multi-Iub IP RAN, and moreover it can calculate a factor for efficient overbooking  ...
Xi Li, 2011
3
Capacity Options for Revenue Management: Theory and ...
3.3.3.4 Overbooking Managing capacity utilization in the airline industry is aggravated by cancellations and no-shows6 of passengers. Smith et al. (1992, p. 11) state that, “on average, about half of all reservations made for a flight are canceled ...
Rolf Hellermann, 2006
4
Hospitality Law: Managing Legal Issues in the Hospitality ...
Overbooking Just as hotels can sometimes miscalculate their occupancy forecasts and oversell their capacity, so too can airlines and rental car companies . Thus, hotel managers often find themselves housing guests who are affected by the ...
Stephen C. Barth, 2006
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Hotel Management and Operations
To avoid liability, front desk agents should check area hotels for availability if they know that overbooking is likely. In the case of a civil suit for breach of contract, the would-be guest could recover compensatory damages including payment for ...
Michael J. O'Fallon, Denney G. Rutherford, 2011
6
The Global Airline Industry
This model incorporates uncertainty about no-show rates for future flight departures, by representing the no-show forecast as a normal (Gaussian) probability distribution. The estimates of no-show behavior used by the overbooking model for a ...
Peter Belobaba, Amedeo Odoni, Cynthia Barnhart, 2009
7
Introduction to Air Transport Economics: From Theory to ...
Here is a comprehensive textbook that applies economic theory to all aspects of the aviation industry.
Dr Thomas Tacker, Mr Ken Fleming, Dr Bijan Vasigh, 2013
8
Public Interest Law: An Economic and Institutional Analysis
the "denied-reservation" costs and thus to benefit airline customers. At the same time, since the number of no-shows is not known in advance of departure time, overbooking creates the possibility that some passengers will have to be bumped  ...
Burton Allen Weisbrod, Joel F. Handler, Neil K. Komesar, 1978
9
MPLS-Enabled Applications: Emerging Developments and New ...
Overbooking. In the discussion so far, LSPs are established with bandwidth reservations for the maximum amount of traffic that is bound to traverse the LSP. However, not all LSPs are carrying the maximum amount of traffic at all times. Thus ...
Ina Minei, Julian Lucek, 2010
10
The Laws of Innkeepers: For Hotels, Motels, Restaurants, and ...
Yet, it leaves unsettled the problem of hotel overbooking. The most recent airline overbooking case decided by the United States Supreme Court'" raised the question whether the provisions of the Federal Aviation Act, which created a statutory ...
John E. H. Sherry, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERBOOKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overbooking is used in the context of the following news items.
1
UK weather forecasts more than a MONTH'S worth of rain wrecking …
Budget airline easyJet is under fire for overbooking thousands of peak-season holiday flights – leaving passengers stranded at the airport. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
EasyJet Accused of Overbooking Flights, Violating EU Rules
British low-cost carrier easyJet has come under fire for allegedly overbooking thousands of flights during the peak summer travel season, the ... «TravelPulse, Jul 15»
3
Aníbal Fernández denies Aeorolíneas Argentinas overbooking
Cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández discussed with reporters cancellations affecting thousands of Aerolíneas Argentinas passengers in the ... «Buenos Aires Herald, Jul 15»
4
EasyJet overbooking thousands of peak-season flights – and …
A spokesman for the airline said cases of denied boarding due to overbooking were “extremely rare”. He said 2.6m easyJet passengers a year ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
5
Airlines flaunt rules: Overbooking flights ought to benefit passengers …
Counter-intuitively, overbooking the seats on commercial flights is good practice for an airline and beneficial for passengers – so long as it is ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
6
Delays and drama: Knowing your flight rights
The European Union has some regulation which covers air passenger rights in case of delays, cancellations and overbooking which prevents a ... «City A.M., Jul 15»
7
PRESS DIGEST- British Business - July 23
EASYJET OVERBOOKING THOUSANDS OF PEAK-SEASON FLIGHTS - AND FLOUTING EU RULES ON OFFLOADED PASSENGERS. «Reuters, Jul 15»
8
Bridget Jones author hires a hunky manny says SEBASTIAN …
'It is extremely rare for easyJet to deny boarding of passengers due to overbooking,' insists a spokesman. About as rare as a rain-soaked ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
9
Cookies on the BBC website
"Counter-intuitively, overbooking the seats on commercial flights is a good practice... But the system is not working... These practices give a bad ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
10
Tax bills killing drive to find new reserves in Indonesia – Andang …
This change has an impact on the overbooking mechanism of the LBT in the blocks awarded from the year 2011 onwards. Nonetheless, no ... «The Malaysian Insider, Jul 15»

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