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say it: BUUK-ing
booking is a noun meaning "employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time". It carries 2 recorded senses.
employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
“the play had bookings throughout the summer”
the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)
“wondered who had made the booking”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for booking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.