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block bookings

block bookings is the plural of block booking.

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.

Questions about block bookings

What is block bookings the plural of?
Block bookings is the plural of block booking.

Words near block bookings in the dictionary

  1. block
  2. block and tackle
  3. block and tackles
  4. block book
  5. block booking
  6. block bookings
  7. block books
  8. block capital
  9. block capitals
  10. block captain
  11. block captains

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Adapted from Wiktionary: block bookings (page history and authors); block booking (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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