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block-booking

block-booking is the alternative form of block booking.

block-booking is the present participle and gerund of block-book.

Meaning of block booking

Noun

block booking (countable and uncountable, plural block bookings)

  1. (uncountable) The reservation of a large number of hotel rooms, tickets, or other items at one time; (countable) an instance of this.
    • The restaurant has a block booking for Saturday night.
  2. (US, historical, uncountable) The sale of multiple films by a film studio to a theater as a unit, without the latter knowing much about them, allowing the studio to package less popular films with more popular ones. The Supreme Court of the United States determined the practice to be in violation of antitrust law in 1948.

Meaning of block-book

Verb

block-book (third-person singular simple present block-books, present participle block-booking, simple past and past participle block-booked)

  1. (transitive) To book (“reserve in advance”) a large number of (hotel rooms, tickets, or other items) at one time.
    • We’ve block-booked three rows of seats at the theatre.

Forms of block-booking

pluralblock-bookings

Questions about block-booking

What is block-booking the alternative form of?
Block-booking is the alternative form of block booking.

Words near block-booking in the dictionary

  1. block votes
  2. block wall
  3. block walls
  4. block-book
  5. block-booked
  6. block-booking
  7. block-books
  8. block-head
  9. block-heads
  10. block-holder
  11. block-holders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: block-booking (page history and authors); block booking (page history and authors); block-book (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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