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booking

[book-ing] / ˈbʊk ɪŋ /
NOUN
engagement
Synonyms


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The S&P 500 sank 4.4%, booking its largest loss of market value on record.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

Gross booking value rose 21% to $27.7 billion, beating Wall Street’s consensus estimate of $26.43 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Amazon stock rises after booking a modest decline last week on earnings.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

But the supermarket is not an airline, and dinner should not require the same vigilance as booking a flight.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

They probably figured we were still booking it down the beach, a long ways down there by now.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

Airbnb's new guidelines, which apply to bookings made globally from 20 November, state that hosts can now set seven standard house rules and other "reasonable" requests.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Uber’s gross bookings, which tracks the value of all rides and deliveries, climbed 20% to $59.82 billion, but similarly decelerated from the first two quarters of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

In the current fourth quarter, Expedia expects gross bookings to be $27.9 billion to $28.4 billion, just shy of the $28.35 billion analysts expect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

It also expects gross bookings of $63.25 billion to $65.25 billion, or up 18% to 22% year-over-year on a constant-currency basis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

His for Estha alone, because Chacko had gone to see about the bookings at the Hotel Sea Queen.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy


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