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outbook

outbook verb: to achieve more bookings than someone or something.

Verb

outbook (third-person singular simple present outbooks, present participle outbooking, simple past and past participle outbooked)

  1. (transitive) To achieve more bookings than someone or something.
    • Supervising the front desk, she regularly outbooked her peers by £1,000 a night.1990, Caterer & Hotelkeeper, volume 183, page 42
  2. (transitive) To surpass in one's knowledge of book moves.
    • Then on move 13, Deep Thought II surprisingly found itself outbooked and in a difficult position.2013, Monty Newborn, Deep Blue: An Artificial Intelligence Milestone, page 76

Forms of outbook

third-person singular presentoutbooks
present participleoutbooking
past participleoutbooked
pastoutbooked

Origin of outbook

From out- + book.

Questions about outbook

What does outbook mean?
Outbook means to achieve more bookings than someone or something.
What part of speech is outbook?
Outbook is a verb.
What is the past tense of outbook?
The past tense of outbook is outbooked.

Words near outbook in the dictionary

  1. outbond
  2. outboob
  3. outboobed
  4. outboobing
  5. outboobs
  6. outbook
  7. outbooked
  8. outbooking
  9. outbooks
  10. outbooze
  11. outboozed

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